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Coronavirus Can Infect Cats Apr 06, 2020

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Tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo have tested positive for the virus, and studies show that house cats—but apparently not dogs—can become infected.

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Squid's Glowing Skin Patterns May Be Code Apr 02, 2020

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Humboldt squid can rapidly change the pigmentation and luminescence patterns on their skin by contracting and relaxing their muscles, possibly to communicate.

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Bird Fossil Shared Earth with T. rex Apr 01, 2020

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Dating back 67 million years, this representative of the group of modern birds has been dubbed the Wonderchicken (which is not an April Fools’ Day joke).

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City Birds: Big-Brained with Few Offspring or Small-Brained with a Lot Mar 31, 2020

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To make it in urban areas, birds tend to be either large-brained and able to produce few offspring or small-brained and extremely fertile. In natural habitats, most birds brains are of average size.

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Coyotes Eat Everything from Fruits to Cats Mar 30, 2020

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The diets of coyotes vary widely, depending on whether they live in rural, suburban or urban environments—but pretty much anything is fair game.

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Tiny Wormlike Creature May Be Our Oldest Known Ancestor Mar 29, 2020

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The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago.

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Science News Briefs from around the Planet Mar 28, 2020

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Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain.

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Help Researchers Track COVID-19 Mar 26, 2020

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By entering your health status, even if you’re feeling fine, at the Web site COVID Near You, you can help researchers develop a nationwide look at where hotspots of coronavirus are occurring.

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Sick Vampire Bats Restrict Grooming to Close Family Mar 25, 2020

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When vampire bats feel sick, they still engage in prosocial acts such as sharing food with nonrelatives. But they cut back on grooming anyone other than their closest kin.

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Exponential Infection Increases Are Deadly Serious Mar 24, 2020

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Listen in as I use two calculators to track the difference in numbers of infections over a short period of time, depending on how many people each infected individual infects on average.

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