Biology
'Death scent' helps ants realize dead bodies
When an ant dies, other members will quickly bury it to prevent the risk of spreading the disease.
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Biology
Growing too fast leads to premature death in honey bees
Research shows that the transition to flight activity in a naturally occurring living organism can have consequences that affect the rate of aging.
Biology
Warning mechanism and cell self-destruction when poisoning or disease
Cells are encoded with a number of programs to self-destruct. Many cells die peacefully while others do it hard. According to notes by a group of Washington University s…
Biology
Bees choke enemies to death
The new discovery raises the total number of ways bees use to deal with enemies into 3, including: burning - which means that bees commit suicide, heat others, and cripp…
Biology
Benefits of beetles eating corpses
Scientists in Spain are studying the life cycles of specific beetles to know how they can help determine a person's death time.
Biology
Is there a state between life and death?
There may be a state at the boundary of life and death! The author of a study has suggested that certain groups of organisms, tissues and cells can survive in a state si…
Biology
The poisonous tree species causes many deaths in Vietnam
Cat eye tree also has many other names such as mimosa, virgin brown or virgin swamp. This tree has relatives with many virgin trees growing in Vietnam.
Animal world
Strange bird smells like feces, fake death
The Hoatzin is a bird that lives in the Amazon and Orinoco plains. This is the only bird with claws growing on each wing.
Animal world
Apricot newspapers were bitten by the same type in the death battle
Ryan Jenkins, a freelance carpenter, recorded the intense war of apricot newspapers, on August 8, while driving on the riverside road of Sabie, Latest Sightings on Octob…
Animal world
Explain the cause of longevity of the first animals
Biologists believe that in many animals with social behavior, genetic characteristics allow the herds to live longer, resist age-related diseases.
Animal world
Decode the strange effect behind the 300 dead reindeer events in Norway
A lightning strike brought a sad record for Norway, when more than 300 reindeer died. But in return, two years later, the effect was amazing.
Animal world
Rare sea turtles die in mass in Mexico
More than 100 marine turtles, mainly of a rare and endangered turtle species, are found on the beach in Puerto Arista, a small Pacific town in the state of Chiapas, Mexi…
Animal world
Hundreds of parrots fell on Australian streets
About 200 Galah cockatoos died in Burra town in Australia's state of South Australia, prompting the state's Environment and Clean Water Agency and the local council to c…
Animal world
Animals 'love to die' are included in the Red Book
As revealed by scientists, every mating season, male antechinus will
Animal world
The players 'deep play' in the natural world
To escape the enemy, snake Hognose lies on his stomach and stops breathing. Weasel opossum