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Sleepy dormice are losing their cozy tree hollows

Sleepy dormice are losing their cozy tree hollows

Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.In the children’s story Alice in Wonderland, a character known simply as the keeps dozing off during the Mad Hatter’s tea party, waking occasionally to utter a nonsensical remark.As it turns out, this sleepy-headed depiction is dead-on: The 28 species of small, little-known, tree-dwelling rodents known as dormice do snooze most of the day. (These fuzzy-tailed floofs—which range throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa—are even known to .)“It’s a really lazy animal,” says , senior ecologist at ’s . The park is home to the edible...

December 28, 2020
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NASA helicopter to take a spin on harsh, cold Mars

NASA helicopter to take a spin on harsh, cold Mars

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateScientists are going to attempt something in the next few weeks that no one has ever done. They're going to fly a helicopter on Mars.The robotic aircraft is named Ingenuity, and its core is about the size of a softball. For the past seven months, the device has been rocketing toward the Red Planet inside a rover called Perseverance. After traveling at nearly 25,000 miles per hour, they are scheduled to touch down on Martian soil Thursday. (Get updates at mars.nasa.gov/mars2020.)NASA has been exploring the surface of Mars with...

February 15, 2021
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Half-female, half-male rose-breasted grosbeak found in Pennsylvania

Half-female, half-male rose-breasted grosbeak found in Pennsylvania

October 9, 2020Researchers with a team monitoring bird populations at Powdermill NatureReserve, in Rector, Pennsylvania, netted a surprise on September 24: arose-breasted grosbeak with bizarre coloring. It had the bright scarletfeathers of a male grosbeak on one side of its body and the canary yellowplumage of a female on the other.When they saw the robin-size songbird’s split coloring, it was immediatelyclear that the grosbeak was what scientists call a bilateral gynandromorph—ananimal that appears half male and half female.“There was no question about it,” says ,bird banding program...

October 9, 2020
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