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American naturalist Henry Beston writes that animals “are not brethren, they are not underlings” but beings “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.” They are, he writes, “other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail

In a word, Frederick Cuvier’s Sperm Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash.

Octopuses and their relatives have what Woods Hole researcher Roger Hanlon calls electric skin. For its color palette, the octopus uses three layers of three different types of cells near the skin’s surface—all controlled in different ways. The deepest layer, containing the white leucophores, passively reflects background light. This process appear

Neurons in the brain fire in distinctive patterns while a rat in a maze performs particular tasks. The researchers repeatedly saw the exact same patterns reproduced while the rats slept—so clearly that they could tell what point in the maze the rat was dreaming about, and whether the animal was running or walking in the dream. The rats’ dreams took

Through certain types of aerobic training, namely long duration/low intensity (endurance) work, the left ventricle of the heart increases in volume. Through aerobic training the left ventricle of your heart hypertrophies and is able to contain a greater volume of blood. What this means is your heart pumps out more blood with each beat, which means