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Frontier Developments has released a behind-the-scenes look at what animal expert Steve Backshall brought to the creation of Planet Zoo: Console Edition. Check the video out below, exclusively on NME. Introducing the mockumentary, Frontier asked: “Ever wondered about the hard work that goes into bringing a game with as much depth and authenticity as Planet Zoo to consoles?” “With over 70 amazing animals, four engaging game modes, and limitless creativity, there’s plenty for the Frontier Developments team to get stuck in…

Big Mode, the video game publisher established by content creator Videogamedunkey, has finally revealed the official release date for what feels like its most-anticipated game: Animal Well. Big Mode announced the title as its flagship game last year, and now we know it’ll be available for fans to get their hands on in just a couple of months. When is the release date for Animal Well? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhB6dLh9nn4 Animal Well will released on May 9, 2024, for PC via Steam, PS5, and Nintendo Switch.…

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a recent discovery in the octopus genome.That's a big deal given that scientists didn't know until now that these oddball creatures even had a form of sex determination written into their genes. To determine if an octopus is male or female, biologists have relied purely on observation, differentiating between which individuals lay eggs versus which produce sperm.Searching the octopus genome had shown no clear sign of a sex chromosome system.…

With their bladed paws, wielded by a rippling mass of pure muscle, sharp eyes, agile reflexes, and crushing fanged jaws, lions are certainly not a predator most animals have any interest in messing with. Especially seeing as they also have the smarts to hunt in packs."Lions are the biggest group-hunting land predator on the planet, and thus ought to be the scariest," conservation biologist Michael Clinchy from Western University in Canada said in 2023.But in over 10,000 recordings of wildlife on the African savannah, 95…

Weappy Wholesome (!?) is showing off its upcoming movie-making sim, Hollywood Animal, with a deep dive into its gameplay systems. Oh my gosh… The trailer, entitled “How To Make a Quick Buck With a Shameless Sequel,” is framed like it’s just going to show you how to make a sequel. It starts out simply representing the vapid nature of constant, creatively devoid sequels that are the foundation of the movie industry. Then, the seven-minute clip just gets darker and darker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30MlnFsFLyM The…

A huge virtual gallery of museum skeletons is fully open for viewing. A large group of scientists has painstakingly created 3D reconstructions of thousands of vertebrate specimens, which are now freely available to view online. The endeavor not only allows the public to see once-inaccessible museum collections, but it is already improving scientific knowledge.The project is called openVertebrate, or oVert, and has been years in the making. Since 2017, scientists from 18 museums, universities, and other institutions around…

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Orca pack hunting is legendary. Working in tightly regimented groups, these fierce predators can bring down far more difficult prey than any one orca could handle alone.But white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), the terror of the seas? An orca (Orcinus orca) laughs at the white shark. In fact, scientists off the coast of South Africa have now observed that a single orca, acting alone, can dispatch a white shark extremely handily, triumphantly making off with its delicious, nutritious liver."As previously in South Africa,…

Animal Crossing fans have recreated the viral ‘Willy Wonka Experience’ that’s taken the Internet by storm for all the wrong reasons. Earlier this week, footage of an immersive experience inspired by Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory went viral for how shockingly bleak it was. The Glaswegian event was advertised using AI-art but the reality was far from a world of “pure imagination and wonder”, with photos showing a practically empty warehouse with nothing but a rainbow arch, a mysterious masked figure hiding…

Whether eagerly waiting for a treat or napping so comfortably it seems the world around them ceases to exist, animals sure know how to be cute. But they also know how to be naughty, and, well, basically anything in between. That’s what ensures that there’s never a dull moment for people around them and that there’s always plenty of content for them to share with netizens online; and that’s exactly what we’re doing today.We’ve put together a list of some of the best pics as shared by the ‘Out Of Context Animals’ Facebook…