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Do spiders dream? What about cuttlefish? Bearded dragons? Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM. By Carolyn Wilke Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their […]
2022-03-27 Urban evolution: How species adapt to survive in cities Plants and animals are evolving in cities around the world — offering ways to study longstanding scientific questions and clues to where climate change is taking us By Eric Bender Brown rats in New York City may be evolving smaller rows of teeth. Tiny […]
2022-03-26 How the Hoopa Valley Tribe Monitors a Rare Carnivore By Elizabeth Miller On a sunny November morning, Anthony Colegrove parked his work truck on the side of a road in northern California’s Klamath Mountains and began creating a mobile laboratory. He pulled down the truck’s tailgate, popped open a tackle box filled with syringes […]