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Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have elucidated how a single photoreceptor in the pineal gland of zebrafish detects ...

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Cute creatures going viral is nothing new. Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo wanted TIME to name Fiona the hippo Person—er, Animal?—of the Year. But 2024 seems to be on a different level of ...

Animals dying later showed extensive ... replacement of the normal architecture of the gland by sheets of large lymphoid cells. Another abnormal thymus was found at autopsy at the end of the ...

She wasn’t the only nonhuman newsmaker this year. Indeed, 2024 was the year that animals seemed to do it all, becoming A-list celebrities, political weapons and cautionary tales. Along the way ...

We may think that gift giving is a purely human trait, but it turns out many other animals also treat their mates and companions. If on Christmas morning, upon opening your annual gift of novelty ...

A spotted hyena scent marking some grass with it's anal gland, this enables the clan to ... to show what it is like to experience seeing wild animals on an African safari. Nature Documentaries ...