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You can smell the bees before you see them.Mixed between honey and pollen, the scent is overwhelmingly sweet as it wafts through the door in a shed placed on a rural piece of property in Amherstburg, Ont.When the door is opened that's when you hear them — thousands of bumblebees angry with the light and noise.The bees are waiting to be purchased by local greenhouses that will use them for pollination. "Pollination is how much fruit you're going to get, so for a farmer, they're not going to play around with their…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: In Predator #5, the Predators may finally get their chance at revenge. Or will it be another mid-series letdown? Read on, if you dare!Published Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:26:09 -0500 by Jude Terror | Alright, devoted comic book lovers and those just here for my scintillating wit, if that can be believed. It seems another week has rolled around and like clockwork, we've got another sequel to the riveting saga in the form of "Predator #5," hitting your favorite comic book stores…

Humans have long been successful predators, thanks to our advanced cognition, tools and technology. And now a new study examining human predation’s influence on nature reveals some fresh insights, such as the fact that we capture even more terrestrial vertebrate species for medicine, the exotic pet trade and other uses than we do for food—setting us apart as a highly unusual kind of predator. Study author Chris Darimont, an ecologist who is also an avid hunter and angler, says he first thought to look at patterns of…

Artistic rendition of the decapitation scene of Tanystropheus hydroides. Credit: Roc Olivé (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)/FECYTFossil evidence reveals that the long necks of the ancient marine reptiles, Tanystropheus, made them vulnerable to predators. The study found bite marks on the necks of the fossils, providing the first direct proof of this long-suspected evolutionary disadvantage despite their survival success over a span of 175 million years.In the age of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles had…

It’s been a big week (f)in orca news. The black and white cetaceans, often referred to as killer whales seem to be making some unexpected moves—popping up in numbers and places where they usually do not.Reddit Knowingly Downvoting Self | Future TechOn Sunday, a group of researchers—surveying the seas from a plane—spotted four whales just south of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, in an area where orca sightings are exceedingly rare, according to a New York Times report. Elsewhere in New England, a fishing crew noted…

Traces of molecules found in ancient rocks are revealing a wild ecosystem of early life that hunted and thrived in the world's oceans for nearly a billion years.Biomarker signatures found in rocks dated to 1.64 billion years ago were left by an entire range of previously unknown organisms that dominated life on Earth, in a low-oxygen world an eon before the emergence of plants, animals, and fungi.These organisms were unlike anything alive today; their discoverers, led by paleobiogeochemists Jochen Brocks and Benjamin…

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify This is Episode Four of a four-part Fascination on really big birds. You can listen to Episode One here; Episode Two here; and Episode Three here. Flora Lichtman: I don’t want to ruffle any feathers, but this is the best way to describe terror birds. Federico Degrange: Terror birds are f—ing amazing.  There’s no discussion about it. They are ... the most, most amazing group of birds that existed ever. Lichtman: I’m Flora Lichtman, and this is Scientific American’s Science, Quickly. And…

Orcas are attacking and capsizing boats off the coast of Spain in what researchers are saying may be learned behavior. The local maritime rescue service said on Thursday that several killer whales had damaged a sailing boat, adding to dozens of reported orca attacks off the coasts of Spain and Portugal this year.Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechA sailing boat was making headway to Gibraltar in the early hours of Thursday when a group of orcas pierced the boat’s hull and broke the rudder. A rapid-response vessel was…

Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock)DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor PicksThere has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation.Social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate contact with kids, and abuse occurs both online and offline. Increasingly, predators are using advances in technology to engage in…

How would you be able to sleep if you were surrounded by predators who might eat you as soon as you nodded off? Well, a new study shows that elephant seals manage it by only sleeping two hours a day, and doing so deep in the ocean.Northern elephant seals lie on the beach throughout the breeding season, during which time they may sleep for as much as 10 hours a day.That said, they also spend up to eight months of the year foraging for prey out at sea, never coming ashore the whole time. Scientists have therefore wondered…