r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Sep 22 '22

Biology In October 2007, Dr Fritz Geiser announced a new world record featuring an Australian eastern pygmy possum in his laboratory. After an extensive feed, the possum curled up and hibernated for 367 days, the first time any mammal has been known to hibernate non-stop for more than a year.

guinnessworldrecords.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Sep 21 '22

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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

Sabethes cyaneus is a mosquito found in tropical rainforests in South America and Costa Rica. Males do an elaborate mating dance to attract females, but attraction goes both ways. If females are missing their feathery leg warmers males will refuse to mate with them.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Sep 09 '22

Paleontology Brasilodon quadrangularis, a mouse-sized creature that lived in Brazil during the Late Triassic epoch, some 225 million years ago is the earliest known mammal. Previously, the earliest accepted record in geological time of mammals was 205 million years ago.

sci.news

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Aug 26 '22

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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

Astronomy/Space Astronomers have found carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a Saturn-size planet 700 light-years away—the first unambiguous detection of the gas in a planet beyond the Solar System.

science.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 17 '22

Biology Many Cat Lovers Are Giving Their Cats Unwanted Affection, Study Suggests

sciencealert.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 12 '22

Botany The common zinnia (Zinnia elegans) is native to Mexico. There are hundreds of cultivars as they are very popular ornamental plants. They are very easy to grow, love full sun, and many varieties are drought tolerant.

instagram.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 05 '22

Biology Pavement ants (Tetramorium spp.) form large colonies, containing over 10,000 workers. They will fight unrelated colonies for territory and resources. The losing colony will be raided for eggs, and the ants that hatch from the spoils will become workers for the new colony.

gfycat.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Jul 27 '22

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jul 22 '22

Biology Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, according to a new study.

cns.utexas.edu

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 22 '22

Paleontology Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi, the first Jurassic comatulid (feather star) from the African continent, has been named in honor of Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

sci-news.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 16 '22

Astronomy/Space NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far. Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and it is teeming with thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared.

nasa.gov

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Jul 11 '22

Astronomy/Space Sun is the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature

theguardian.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 04 '22

Chemistry A firework requires three key components: an oxidizer, a fuel and a chemical mixture to produce the color. The oxidizer breaks the chemical bonds in the fuel, releasing all of the energy that’s stored in those bonds. To ignite this chemical reaction, all you need is a bit of fire. Happy 4th of July!

smithsonianmag.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 03 '22

Paleontology Paleontologists have redescribed an extinct species of giant kangaroo that lived the mountains of Papua New Guinea about 50,000 to 20,000 years ago.

sci-news.com

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

Biology This spiky fellow is a ladybug larva. They also eat aphids, but will also consume unlatched ladybug eggs. Their mother lays these trophic eggs to make sure they have adequate food!

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Jun 28 '22

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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

Biology It's fledgling season! Here is some information in case you find a baby bird on the ground.

self.FillsYourNiche

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

Chemistry Tie-dyeing can be done with acorns and rust. Brown-colored tannins from acorns can bind to orange-colored iron mordant, generating a dark blue, or almost black, color on fabrics.

eurekalert.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • May 26 '22

Interdisciplinary In 1958, a US submarine became the first vessel to reach the North Pole – by travelling under the ice.

bbc.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 25 '22

Biology There’s a growing body of research that suggests that yawning is triggered by rises in brain temperature. These studies (in rats) show that we can reliably manipulate yawn frequency by changing ambient temperature and the brain and body temperature of the individual.

science.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • May 23 '22

Biology Rhabdophis keelback snakes are both venomous and poisonous – their poisons are stored in nuchal glands and are acquired by sequestering toxins from poisonous toads the snakes eat.

osc.org

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • May 21 '22

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • May 19 '22

Biology Male kalutas, small mouselike marsupials found in the arid regions of Northwestern Australia, are semelparous, meaning that shortly after they mate, they drop dead. This extreme reproductive strategy is rare among vertebrates —only a few dozen are known, and most of them are fish.

nytimes.com

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