Elizabeth Preston
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Premature Births Fell During Some Covid Lockdowns, Study Finds
Nearly 50,000 preterm births may have been averted across a group of mostly high-income countries in one month alone.
Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights
As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice...
Elephants in Mourning Spotted on YouTube by Scientists
It is difficult to catch Asian elephants responding to deaths of herd members in the wild, but online videos helped researchers observe the behavior.
‘Mouth Almighty’ Doesn’t Mind When His Cheeks Are Full of Another Fish’s Babies
A study of Australian fish that care for offspring through mouthbrooding shows that things underwater are not always as monogamous as they seem.
These Birds Form a Trio, but Probably Not a Throuple
Some pairs of cranes in India, known for their monogamous devotion, seem to bring in a third bird to act like a kind of avian...
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