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Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan have discovered a previously undiscovered behavior in cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus). When presented with a mirror, the tiny fish not only recognized themselves, but experimented with the mirror themselves, interacting with it using a scrap of food. The results suggest that these ...


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In a laboratory, under bright white light, a single strand of hair lay stretched across a tray. It measured just under five inches long. To the naked eye, it was fragile and unremarkable — a thin filament preserved by chance inside a sealed iron coffin buried in Queens nearly two centuries ago.

But to a scientist...


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Meet Flu D, The Quiet Cattle Virus With Pandemic-Style Warning Signs: In December 2025, a U.S.–Mexican research team traveled to a massive Monterrey-area feedlot to track influenza D virus (IDV), a little-studied flu type whose main reservoir is cattle. Using nasal swabs, blood draws, and air samplers, they probed how the virus circ...


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Growing up, you probably changed your style based on your social influences. It turns out, such pressures affect the appearance of young clownfish (anemonefish) too. A new study from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has revealed the social influences and biological mechanisms controlling bar loss in tomato anemonefish, showing ...


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The first study of multiple cancer types in cats has identified genetic changes that could help treat the condition in humans and animals.

By analysing different types of tumours from almost 500 pet cats across five countries, experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada, the...


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