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Wild Chimps Consume About One Drink’s Worth of Ethanol Daily From Fermented Fruit

Published in Science Advances, UC Berkeley’s measurements set a quantitative baseline that lends weight to the “drunken monkey” hypothesis.

Africa-Wide Genomes Map Anopheles funestus Evolution and Control Challenges

Wild Octopus Study Catalogs 3,907 Arm Actions, Revealing Decentralized Control

Beer and Bed-Sharing Linked to Greater Mosquito Attraction in Festival Study

Oldest Known Lepidosaur From 242 Million Years Ago Recasts Early Lizard Evolution

Study Documents First Beaked Whale Acoustic Signatures in Brazilian Waters

Storms Killed and Preserved Baby Pterosaurs, Study Finds

Study Finds Rodent Thumbnails Are Widespread and Ancient

Free-Roaming Bison Supercharge Yellowstone Grasslands, Science Study Finds

Sheet Web Spiders Use Trapped Fireflies’ Glow as Bait, Study Finds

First Documented Orange Nurse Shark Confirmed off Costa Rica

Long-Lost Sailback Houndshark Rediscovered in Papua New Guinea After 50 Years

Wild Bumble Bees Balance Macros, Splitting Into Two Nutrient Niches

Introduced Bootanomyia Wasps on Both U.S. Coasts Show Separate Lineages

Rare Video Shows Spectral Bats Hug, Cuddle and Share Prey in the Wild

Study Finds Streaked Shearwaters Defecate Almost Exclusively in Flight

Ledi-Geraru Teeth Reveal Unnamed Australopithecus Coexisting With Early Homo

Otter Scat Reveals Parasite Networks and Fish-Crab Diet in Chesapeake Bay

Ethiopian Fossil Teeth Reveal Early Homo and Unnamed Australopithecus Coexisted

Underwater Tag Footage Reveals Mutual Play Between Whales and Dolphins