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Casper and Teddie are two beautiful Persian cats from England. They are very successful on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, and it’s not hard to see why. They are absolutely adorable!One video in particular piqued people’s interest, garnering over 1.2 million likes on Instagram alone. In the video, Dave, Teddie and Casper’s human father, is seen hanging a basket of their excess hair for the birds, so that they can use the fur to build their nests. Birds are known for gathering animal hair since it makes a soft,…

For a while, Google has offered its Digital Wellbeing suite of tools to users. These tools allow you to use your digital devices more safely. Digital Wellbeing on a Nest device places restrictions on what kind of media people will hear. Well, thanks to a new update, more people in your household can adjust the Digital Wellbeing settings on your Nest Hub. Sometimes, it can be tough to keep an eye on the kind of content streaming through your Google Nest Hub. Sometimes, some unsavory lyrics or videos can come through among…

Danish wind giant Ørsted has completed three huge artificial nests designed to house a vulnerable seabird species near the UK’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. Hornsea 3 is a 2.85 gigawatt offshore wind farm that will be located off England’s east coast, around 120 km (75 miles) from Norfolk and 160 km (99 miles) from Yorkshire. It’s expected to be completed by 2025, and it will be capable of powering over 3 million households. It’s also the first UK offshore wind project to require ecological…

Naturalist Auke-Florian Hiemstra has seen a lot of bird nests, but none were quite like the one he spotted in a photograph from a patient in a Belgian hospital. This nest, high in a sugar maple in the hospital’s courtyard, was massive—and looked like metal. “It just was this very big ball of metallic, nasty bird spikes,” Hiemstra says. On closer inspection, he realized a Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) had built the two-foot-wide nest with materials that included some 1,500 spikes of the type cities often use to fend off…

Magpies and crows are using anti-bird spikes collected from buildings to build nests.These long metal rods are intended to discourage birds from hanging around, but some crafty urban avians in Europe have found ways to take advantage of the deterrent."It's actually like a joke," says biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, "even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen.Ironically, this first-of-its-kind Dutch study on bird nests made almost…

You've no doubt seen the metal spikes that are placed on the outside of buildings to keep birds from roosting. Well, it has been discovered that magpies and crows are actually using those spikes in their nests – appropriately enough, to keep other birds away.The very ironic use of such a nesting material is the subject of a study recently conducted by scientists from the Netherlands' Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.It all began when a patient at an Antwerp hospital spotted a large…

Rather than aiming to replace the postal system or truck deliveries, Wing has positioned itself as a quicker, cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly way to get small items to nearby customers. And those claims do appear to be backed up by research, albeit commissioned by Wing.“Most deliveries for those smaller items are currently done by cars or large motorbikes or even trucks. So we’re starting to match up the weight of the parcel with the right delivery vehicle to make that delivery,” Rossi said, adding that…

Google's popular Nest Thermostat is this week getting an update that will bring with it support for an exciting new smart home standard called Matter and with it, a major upgrade to Apple Home compatibility. As The Verge notes, starting April 18, an over-the-air update for the Nest Thermostat from 2020 brings with it Matter support. "Great news! We're rolling out Matter compatibility for our newest Nest Thermostat (opens in new tab)," Google stated. Google says this now means you can adjust your home's temperature and…

PTI Bhopal, January 21 Paleontologists have reported a rare discovery of closely located dinosaur nests and 256 eggs of the herbivorous titanosaurs in the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh.  Researchers from the Delhi University and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Mohanpur-Kolkata and Bhopal have also reported discovery of ovum-in-ovo or multi-shell eggs in Bagh and Kukshi areas in Dhar district of Madhya…

A team of paleontologists in India have given 256 fossilized dinosaur eggs a close look, in hopes of better understanding how some of the largest known dinosaurs bred and hatched.The eggs were found across 92 titanosaur nesting sites in India’s Narmada Valley, north and east of Mumbai, with the first clutches discovered in 2012. Now, researchers have published insights about the types of fossilized eggs found in these nests, along with inferences about the dinosaurs that laid them. The team’s research is published today…