Researchers are drilling down into the ways life on a hotter planet will tax our bodies, and looking for protections that, unlike air-conditioning, don’t make the problem worse.
Tag: Anatomy and Physiology
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Dinosaurs Started Out Hot, Then Some of Them Turned Cold
Scientists directly measured the metabolic rate of extinct animals, which revealed that some giant dinosaurs became coldblooded.
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There’s an Animal That Walks on Three Limbs. It’s a Parrot.
Lovebirds — and perhaps other species — seem to confound nature’s strong preference for bilateral bodies.
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The Trigger That Makes an Octopus Mom Self-Destruct
Researchers are gaining a better understanding of the biochemical processes that precede female octopuses’ deaths after they lay and then tend their eggs.
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Review: ‘Vagina Obscura,’ by Rachel E. Gross
There’s a reason women know so little about our own bodies.