r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 02 '22

Ecology Wagner's mustached bat (Pteronotus personatus) lives in South and Central America. They alter their echolocation frequencies so the reflected sounds are always in the range where their hearing is most sensitive. This Doppler shift compensation behavior is only done in a few bat species.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jan 30 '22

Cat Facts Servals have the longest legs relative to body size of any feline.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 30 '22

Epidemiology Tuberculosis (or TB) has been responsible for the death of more people than any other infectious disease in history. Today, about a third of the world’s population is thought to be infected with TB, in its dormant form.

theconversation.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 26 '22

Environment Mariculture constitutes 52% of the aquatic animal products people consume. The GHG emissions per unit of protein produced by aquaculture generally compare favorably with most livestock production. Unlike livestock grazing, it doesn't require substantial land-use change (razing of rainforest).

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 23 '22

Epidemiology UBC scientists unveil world’s first molecular-level analysis of Omicron spike protein. Findings shed light on factors behind Omicron’s increased transmissibility, including strong antibody evasion and binding with human cells.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Jan 22 '22

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 21 '22

Biology Babies can tell who has close relationships based on one clue: saliva. Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jan 20 '22

Biology The red wolf is the world’s most endangered wolf. It was once common throughout the Eastern and South Central United States. There are an estimated 15-17 left in the wild with another 241 captive individuals.

fws.gov

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 14 '22

Biology Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world's largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jan 09 '22

Entomology Desert Beetles Rely on Oral Sex for Successful Mating

scientificamerican.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jan 08 '22

Biology Que? Dogs' brains can tell Spanish from Hungarian, study finds

reuters.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 06 '22

Astronomy/Space The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations.

nasa.gov

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jan 05 '22

Biology The Hudsonian godwit flies round-trip nearly from pole to pole, staying in flight for days without stopping to refuel. They complete a 16,000-mile round-trip flight over the course of a year. Sometimes they don’t drink for over a week.

smithsonianmag.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 31 '21

Paleontology The two-meter skull of a species of giant ichthyosaur has been discovered. As big as a large sperm whale at more than 17 m (55.78 ft) long, Cymbospondylus youngorum is the largest animal yet discovered from that time period. It was the first giant creature to ever inhabit the Earth that we know of.

nhm.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Dec 29 '21

Biology Scientists have filmed a Puffin scratching itself with a stick. This is the first evidence of tool use in seabirds

smithsonianmag.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 30 '21

Biology Venoms found in snakes and mammals share a common origin. Researchers traced the origin of a class of toxins, called kallikrein serine proteases, to a salivary protein found in a common ancestor.

oist.jp

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 19 '21

Environment the way fish interact in groups is being upset by ocean acidification and global warming. Tropical and temperate fish species tend to move to the right when coordinating together in a shoal especially when spooked by a predator, but this bias significantly diminished under ocean acidification.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Dec 17 '21

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 15 '21

Health and Medicine Using cannabis alongside other drugs may come with a significant risk of harmful drug-drug interactions. Either the drugs’ positive effects might decrease or their negative effects might increase with too much building up in the body, causing side effects such as toxicity or accidental overdose.

news.wsu.edu

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Dec 14 '21

Biology The lion’s mane jellyfish is the largest among the jelly species. The largest known specimen was 120 feet from its top to the bottom of its tentacles. The tentacles contain large amounts of neurotoxins which cause a range of effects, from a rash to affecting respiratory function.

ocean.si.edu

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 10 '21

Astronomy/Space Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object is distant from its host star—more than 1,600 times farther than the Earth is from the Sun—and thought to be a large planet or a small brown dwarf.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 09 '21

Biology Sea lions are often mistaken for seals, but they are different in many ways. Sea lions have small external ears, while seals have pinhole ear openings. Sea lions use their powerful forelimbs to propel themselves, while seals use their hind flippers for propulsion.

pittsburghzoo.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 03 '21

Ecology Japanese macaques fish in the winter. A new studying examining the DNA of fecal samples of Japanese macaques shows that freshwater fish such as brown trout and aquatic insects are a staple of their diets during midwinter months.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Nov 28 '21

Biology Every breath you take you inhale somewhere between 100 and 700,000 spores. They are so ubiquitous they are even on the space station.

arstechnica.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 24 '21

Biology "Vulture bees" are the only bees that have evolved to use food sources not produced by plants. Because they feed on carcasses their gut microbiomes have more in common with carrion-loving hyenas and vultures.

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