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Despite a rough beginning, a beluga whale was born early Monday morning at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. At approximately 11:30 P.M. Sunday evening, 23-year-old Puiji went into labor. Four hours later, the calf began to emerge, head first. While breech births in belugas are not entirely rare, many breech babies die soon after birth [...]
To all of the people who had the goals and made the effort to bring positive change to the world in Copenhagen, here is one humungous thank you. Everybody who worked on addressing this critical issue of human-accelerated and potentially catastrophic climate change deserves a hand of support right now, especially since what was agreed [...]
It’s been a long-standing joke that female spiders eat their partners after mating because of ttes, hat tongue-in-cheek expression that females devour males. But while species like the black widow and the wolf spider do in fact resort to cannibalism once they’ve got what they need from a mating ritual with a male, science has [...]
A new phase in the ongoing efforts to control the rabbits on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen of his twenty-seven years in prison, will see rabbits being dressed for human use and donated to charity. Robben Island Robben Island really came into the news with the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the [...]
