3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (383+ words) The radiopharmaceutical "ThyroKitty Injection (I-131)," which treats feline hyperthyroidism, is now being officially supplied for use in clinical settings. Unlike existing medications, it only needs to be administered once, without the need for continuous daily dosing. The Korea Atomic Energy Research…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (349+ words) Long-term study in Brazil shows black-striped capuchins rely more on small vertebrates when plant foods are limited, with implications for early human diets Researchers have observed monkeys hunting and eating small vertebrates when fruit and vegetables become scarce. This behavior,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (253+ words) Opposing helical collagen structures keep the narwhal’s spiral tusk rigid and unbent A research team led by Professor Henrik Birkedal of Aarhus University in Denmark and Professor Marianne Liebi of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden structurally analyzed why narwhal…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (329+ words) Smithsonian team uses dermal denticle fossils to compare Holocene and modern shark populations in the Caribbean and Pacific This week’s cover of the international journal Science features a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the dermal denticles of the scalloped…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (284+ words) Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzes Zhengheornis buhui tail bones to trace early bird evolution 150 million years ago Most terrestrial dinosaurs are known to have had tails so long that they accounted for more than half of their body length. Theropod…...