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July 30, 2023

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Paleontologists Identify Two New Species of Sabertooth Cat

Sabertooth cats make up a diverse group of long-toothed predators that roamed Africa around 6-7 million years ago, around the time that hominins -- the group that includes modern humans -- began to evolve. By examining one of the largest global Pliocene collections of fossils in Langebaanweg, north ...

How to Track Animal of Legend? Look to the Poop

Researchers applied genetic and isotopic analyses to jaguar scat to investigate the habitat needs of the big cats in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Preserve of Belize in Central America. The study demonstrates a novel and noninvasive technique for identifying the landscape use and conservation ...

Ice Age Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Suffered from Diseased Joints

Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence of bone disease in their joints, according to new ...

How the Cat Nose Knows What It's Smelling

Scientists have found the secret to felines' finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first detailed analysis of the domestic cat's nasal ...
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AI Predicts the Work Rate of Enzymes

Enzymes play a key role in cellular metabolic processes. To enable the quantitative assessment of these processes, researchers need to know the so-called 'turnover number' (for short: kcat) ...

Are Our Pets Leaking Information About Us?

Pet and animal-related apps are creating cybersecurity risks to their owners, new research has ...

Canine Distemper Now Threatens Big Cats in Nepal

Researchers have confirmed the first cases of canine distemper virus (CDV), which can cause fatal neurological disease, in tigers and leopards in ...

Mushrooms Magnify Memory by Boosting Nerve Growth

Researchers have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances ...

Economics Trump Environment to Save Big Cats, Say Ecologists

Rapid economic growth has pushed rare species of big carnivores to the brink of extinction, but ecologists have suggested our appetite to once again live alongside big cats is ...

Cat Locomotion Could Unlock Better Human Spinal Cord Injury Treatment

Cats always land on their feet, but what makes them so agile? Their unique sense of balance has more in common with humans than it may appear. Researchers are studying cat locomotion to better ...

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A Deep Red, Cranberry-Tinted Lipstick That's Also Antimicrobial

Lipstick can be a confidence booster, enhance a costume and keep lips from chapping. But sharing a tube with a friend or family member can also spread infections. To develop a version with ...

Smilodon's Sabre Teeth

Researchers have tested the biting efficiency of Smilodon, an extinct species of carnivore close to the extant felines. Using high-precision 3D scans and simulation methods, the team has just ...

Parasite May Create Risk-Taking Wolves in Yellowstone

New research suggests that a common parasite associated with cats turns Yellowstone National Park wolves into risk takers, who when infected are much more likely to disperse across the landscape and ...

Feline Genetics Help Pinpoint First-Ever Domestication of Cats

Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made the first switch from hunter-gatherers to farmers. ...

Cheetah Marking Trees Are Hotspots for Communication Also for Other Species

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team has now shown that several ...

Keep Your Cats Inside for the Sake of Their Health and the Surrounding Environment

New research concludes that by letting their cats outdoors, humans in Washington D.C. are placing cats at high risk for catching and transmitting disease, and are driving a reduction in native animal ...

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Smartphones Are Reservoirs of Allergens According to New Research

A new study showed elevated levels of cat and dog allergens, as well as BDG and endotoxin on simulated phone ...

Fearful Cats Also Express Other Problematic Behavior: Socialization Important Already at Early Stages of Life

Researchers have discovered a number of mutual connections between feline fearfulness, aggression and excessive grooming. Identifying such connections can provide means for preventing problematic ...

Identity Theft the Secret of the Cat Parasite's Success

The parasite Toxoplasma is carried by a large portion of the global human population. Now a study shows how this microscopic parasite so successfully spreads in the body, for example to the brain. ...

Ancient Viral DNA in Human Genome Guards Against Infections

Viral DNA in human genomes, embedded there from ancient infections, serve as antivirals that protect human cells against certain present-day viruses, according to new ...

Cats Distinguish Between Speech Directed at Them and Humans, Study Finds

A small study has found that cats may change their behavior when they hear their owner's voice talking in a tone directed to them, the cats, but not when hearing the voice of a stranger or their ...

After 2018 'Woolsey Wildfire,' Los Angeles' Mountain Lions Are Taking More Risks

Los Angeles is known for its movie stars and beaches. It's also known for being one of only two megacities in the world that supports a population of big cats. Despite being surrounded by a vast ...

感染研究:防止细胞感染的抗体ion

Using bacteria of the Bartonella henselae species, researchers have demonstrated that antibodies can prevent certain surface proteins of bacterial pathogens from entering host cells. The findings are ...

Scientists Illuminate How Virus Attacks Cat Kidney, Could Jump to Humans

Virologists have reverse-engineered an elusive virus linked to chronic kidney disease in cats and described its mechanism of infection, outlining the zoonotic potential of RNA viruses in the ...

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