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A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

A University of Kentucky-led research group is studying snake fungal disease across Kentucky to answer a question with high ...

An interactive toolbox for standardizing, validating, simulating, reducing, and exploring detailed biophysical models that can be used to reveal how morpho-electric properties map to dendritic and ...

Pest control experts are warning the public about a newly discovered invasive coin-marked snake species in Malta that could ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

Programming will change. There will be fewer professional programmers who make their living coding line-by-line. But programmers will still be needed in order to code line-by-line, either to fill in ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

The post Oldest Known Snake In The World Lays Viable Eggs At 61-Years-Old With No Male Around first on TwistedSifter. Snakes ...

Across the globe, stunned locals have captured footage of animals born with extra heads, legs, eyes, and even tentacle-like ...