From Harper’s Findings, February 2019. I’ve bolded what needed to be bolded. I had things to say about some of these really weird ones (were they inscribed by a horror movie screenwriter wanna-be?) but realized you’d be saying them yourselves so I leave it to you to comment.<\/p>\n
Ravens may be able to plan without thinking, and jackdaws act cautiously when they notice an inanimate stick moving on its own.<\/em><\/p>\n The closest remaining genetic trace of the domesticated dog that lived in the Americas before European contact is preserved as a transmissible cancer.<\/em><\/p>\n Fluid-dynamics researchers explained why wombats’ feces are cubed.<\/em><\/p>\n Scientists issued extinction warnings for<\/strong> thousands of species, including sharks and rays threatened by overfishing and coastal construction; the Australian rat kangaroo, threatened by land clearing, wildfires, and feral cats; the San Quint\u00edn kangaroo rat, threatened by conditions that previously led scientists to presume it was already extinct; a giant Mediterranean clam threatened by a mystery parasite; and a variety of rare bees threatened by Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Harper’s Findings, February 2019. I’ve bolded what needed to be bolded. I had things to say about some of these really weird ones (were they inscribed by a horror movie screenwriter wanna-be?) but realized you’d be saying them yourselves … Continue reading