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Theresearchersused high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions. The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design reversible soft adhesives that could work at high speeds.
Read more about it here.
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Full story here. And here’s our rhyming round-up of other ancient, giant versions of modern mammals:
Image credit: Mauricio Antón/Journla of Systematic Palaeontology
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That’s a pretty cool lookin’ bird.
Image Credit: Stanford University, GIF’d by: Maddie Sofia
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Were some of the stone flakes we attribute to our clever ancestors actually created by lil’ ol’ monkeys? Researchers from Oxford University recently documented capuchin monkeys gleefully banging rocks together - probably to get at minerals inside. The flakes they create look pretty similar to those we’ve attributed to human tool makers.
Read the full story from Christopher Joyce. Read a fun rumination on monkey and human tool use by Alva Noe. (And read the study in Nature.)
Image Credits: M. Haslam and the Primate Archaeology Group/University of Oxford/Nature
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