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Why are the monkeys descending from the trees? | EL PAÍS

MIGUEL ÁNGEL CRIADO OCT 25, 2022 – 12:42 GMT+ 40 years ago muriquis spent just 0.05% of their time on the ground, a percentage that has increased twentyfold in a quarter of a century. MARLON LIMA / PROJETO MURIQUI DE … Continue reading

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Shimmering Glass Plates Make You Feel Like You’re Eating Off Water Droplets | Spoon & Tamago

JUNE 1, 2023 / JOHNNY It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the detail of moving water in photography. So you can imagine the technical challenge of accurately capturing water as … Continue reading

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An Unlikely Mutualism: Hoppers & Stingless Bees!

  Dragged this out of the drafts on my computer. Hope you enjoy this footage of a really cool symbiotic relationship we found! […]

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Songbugs  – The stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds | Twenty Thousand Hertz

Art by Jon McCormack. This episode was written and produced by Leila Battison. Why do bugs make the sounds they do? And how do they make them? In this episode, we explore the un-bee-lievable world of insect sounds, including crickets … Continue reading

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DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses

I now have a series of videos doing a deep dive into ERVs on the “Stated Casually” channel. Check it out here: • Did God put Endog… Here we explore the amazing discovery of Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) in our own … Continue reading

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Evolution’s Hidden Wildcard: The Single-Cell Bottleneck

#Evolution, #Darwin, #Mystery The paper this video is based on can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas… The zygote is a single cell with half its DNA from the mother, and half from the father. Why is it that we gamble everything … Continue reading

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A Humbling Short Film Visualizes the Breathtaking Magnitude of 13.8 Billion Years of Cosmic Existence | Colossal

MAY 24, 2023 GRACE EBERT A new short by Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet helps to visualize the immensity of cosmic creation beyond the clock and calendar. The human conception of time is limited. We often think in hours, days, … Continue reading

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65,000 yrs – the great history of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy | Kirsten Banks | TEDxYouth@Sydney

Emus can’t fly, but there’s an Emu in the sky. People have been looking up to the stars for a long time, but for how long? Explore a different perspective of the night sky and learn about the great history … Continue reading

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Heatwaves: how hot can it get?

Heatwaves are becoming more frequent, more intense and more deadly. But what is a heatwave, why are they so dangerous and how are they affected by climate change? 00:00 – What are heatwaves? 01:40 – How do heatwaves form? 05:28 … Continue reading

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Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Wildly Influential Cephalopod Chromolithographs Depict Sea Creatures in Stunning Opalescent Color | Colossal

MAY 26, 2023 GRACE EBERT All images via The Biodiversity Heritage Library In 1851, Jean Baptiste Vérany published a collection of illustrations that captured the subtle colors and tonal variances of cephalopods. In 1851, French pharmacist-turned-naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800–1865) … Continue reading

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