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Dog ‘Remarkably Unscathed’ After Plunging 100ft Down Cliff Face After a Team Rescue
Sun Nov 16 6:33 pm

A pet dog was left “remarkably unscathed” after plunging 100ft down a rocky cliff face in Scotland. The two-year-old Collie named Whisp fell down the cliffs of the Northmavine peninsula in Shetland on Thursday morning. Unfortunately, Whisp landed half way down the rocky ledge so that his owner was unable to reach him safely. At […]

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Bumblebees Have Learned to Read Simple Morse Code–an Ability Seen Only in Humans and Vertebrates
Sat Nov 15 11:24 am

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues. In Morse code, a short duration flash or “dot” denotes a letter “E” and a long duration flash— or “dash”—means letter “T”. Until now, the ability to discriminate between “dot” and “dash” has been seen only […]

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Scientist Discovers New Bee Species with ‘Devil-like’ Horns–Names Her ‘Lucifer’
Thu Nov 13 9:00 am

She’s got devil-like horns, but she ain’t after your soul: she’s only looking for pollen. She’s Megachile lucifer, a new species of solitary bee identified in Western Australia’s Goldfields region by a team of scientists inspecting a rare wildflower habitat. She’s also the first new bee species added to the genus in 20 years, making this resident […]

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Dog Rescued from Boston Tunnel During Rush Hour After Playing ‘Will I Won’t I’ with Police – WATCH
Wed Nov 12 9:00 am

There’s something truly wonderful about the sympathy we humans have for dogs—such that when a rambunctious stray grinds traffic to a halt in a Massachusetts tunnel, the reaction is just that—to stop and wait for police to rescue it. The wrong-way rover was spotted foxtrotting along the side of the Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston […]

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