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New Study Suggests Baby Pterosaurs Could Fly

The bone structure of flaplings in two pterosaur species indicate they may have been nimble in the air from day one – which argues against parental nurture

Anti-aging Doesn't Exist: What Scientists Know About Slowing the Aging Process Anti-aging Doesn't Exist: This Is What Scientists Know About Slowing the Aging Process

How to Save the World's Coral Reefs? Scientists Look to the Red Sea for Answers

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Menemerus semilimbatus

Jumping Spiders on Tiny Treadmills Reveal Advanced, Ancient Ability

Study shows that the kids of elite spotted hyenas face fewer constraints in picking their friends and surviving. Sound familiar?

Community or Nepotism? Israeli Researchers Prove Hyenas 'Inherit' Friendship

Dog and meat

Raw Dog Foods Are a Superbug Hazard, Researchers Warn

A graph showing the excess mortality in May 2020.

The Deadly Week-long Heat Wave That Israel Wasn't Ready For

American red wolf pups born at North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro, in May.

Study Shows Why You Can't Have Wolves as Pets

A wildfire raging in British Columbia earlier this month.

When Canada Was Hotter Than Baghdad

A reconstructed proto-dino Silesaurus, in Poland's Museum of Evolution.

Scientists Make a Breakthrough Discovery – in Dinosaur Poo

Rekhes Lavan nature reserve in Jerusalem on which thousands of housing units are expected to be built, last year

Israel to Lose 10 Percent of Open Spaces by 2050 Unless Birthrate Drops, Experts Say

A digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton.

A Bird the Size of Your Fist Had a Head Like a T-rex

An Arctic rotifer, looking pretty good for its age (24,000 years).

Rotifers Found Still Alive in Siberian Ice After 24,000 Years

Did dinosaurs have fleas? Yes, and lice too

Did Dinosaurs Have Fleas?

A wind farm in Germany.

Cannibal Wind Farms, Beating Earth’s Orbit and Other Climate Change Briefs

Steak From Aleph Farms' bio-reactor, not a cow

Will 'Lab Meat' Ever Feed the World? This Company Says Yes

A wildfire in California 14 years ago.

Arctic Warmer Than Jerusalem, Again, and Other Climate Change Briefs

Human sperm and egg, illustration.

Spermaggedon in the West? Relax, Harvard Has Good News for You

A couple of common fruit bats hanging out.

4,300-year-old Bat Poo Pile May Tell Tale of Climatic Changes

A diver swimming above a coral reef in the Red Sea, offshore of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology near the city of Jedda.

Red Sea Corals Hate Climate Change, Because of the Cold Red Sea Corals Laugh Off Global Warming but Suffer in Cold Snaps

Mexico’s Ayoloco glacier, at the Iztaccihuatl volcano, April 21, 2021

We Moved Earth’s Axis, We’re No. 1 and Other Climate Change Briefs

People riding on the banks of the River Tawi, flooded due to monsoon rains, in Jammu, India, 2012.

Monitoring the ‘Third Pole’ and Other Climate Change Briefs

Move Over Israel, the World Has a New Contender for Most Vaccinated Country

U.S. Recommends ‘Pause’ for J&J Vaccine Over Clot Reports

Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), Parc du Rouge Cloître, Brussels

Birds Migrating Over Israel Are Changing Timing, and Other Climate Briefs Birds Migrating Over Israel Are Changing Their Timing, and Other Climate Change Briefs

A Clalit Health Maintenance Organization nurse fills a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine in Tel Aviv last week.

COVID-19 Prevention: Why You Should Still Wear a Mask Even After Your Vaccination

Ola Kaellenius, chairman of Daimler AG attends the presentation of the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class near Stuttgart, Germany, 2020.

Daimler's Chairman Sees a Future Where Smart Cars Adopt the Smartphone Model German Automotive Group Daimler's Chairman Sees a Future Where Smart Cars Adopt the Smartphone Model

COVID-19 testing in Jerusalem, September 2020

COVID-19: Joint WHO-China Study Suggests Likely Source of the Virus

Octopus tetricus.

Octopus Ancestors Were Among the Earliest Animals on Earth Octopus Ancestors Were Among the Earliest Animals on Earth, Report Says

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