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Ancient texts shed new light on the hidden nature of the whale that ‘captured the mind’

Seven descriptions of sea creatures in ancient writings

A new study shows that, in the last two thousand years, the strange feeding behavior of fish has been described by scientists in the 2010s in ancient texts about sea creatures. In 2011, Bryde’s fish were first seen in the Sea of Thailand on the surface of the water with their jaws open at various …

Weight Loss: The Nature of Livestock Livestock

Weight imbalances: The biology of humans, animals, pets and mammals. Credit: Itai Raveh We often think that our world is an endless realm of vast plains, forests and oceans, full of wildlife featured in unforgettable shows like the BBC’s Planet Earth. But the world’s first census of wild mammals, conducted by researchers at the Weizmann …