mammals
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You Really Don’t Want to Know How Giraffes Flirt
Recent research into giraffe behavior has revealed some unexpected—and, frankly, gross—mating habits.
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Cut Marks on 125,000-Year-Old Bones Suggest Neanderthals Butchered Giant Elephants
Historical finds of elephant remains alongside stone tools have long prompted speculation among researchers that early humans or other hominin species may have relied on the massive mammals for food.
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The Army Corps of Engineers Made a 2023 Cat Calendar, and It’s Glorious
It’s hard to believe that the mighty, stone-faced U.S. Army would ever adapt adorable cat babies as its representatives, but this is the internet in the year of our lord 2023. Anything is possible.
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A Decade-Old Coyote Attack Mystery May Be Solved
In 2009, a pack of coyotes living in Canada’s Cape Breton Highlands National Park killed a 19-year-old hiker in a seemingly unprovoked attack. It was the first coyote-related killing ever documented in Canada and only the second in North America, following the 1981 death of a toddler in California. More than a decade later, scientists…