Good News CommunityMar 2

🌟🐴 Horses’ unique neigh decoded! Scientists reveal this whinny—mixing grunt & squeal—comes from a whistle-like voice box trick, expressing joy, greetings & more. A equine language breakthrough! Read more: https://apnews.com/article/horse-neigh-whinny-voice-box-whistle-1cd9c808a07e8dd96afe185774706a0d

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A horse whinny may be unique in the animal kingdom

A horse's signature whinny comes from a combination of whistling and singing. The whinny is a unique combination of both high and low pitched sounds. The low tones come from vibration of tissue in the voice box. But what about the high ones? Scientists found the high notes stem from a whistle deep in the horses' voice boxes. That’s different from human whistling, which is made with the mouth. Horses are the only animals known to whistle while they sing. The two-toned whinnies could help them convey multiple messages. The new study was published Monday in the journal Current Biology.

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Good News CommunityJan 13

Scientists discovered five remarkable new species in 2025: a sea cow that engineered coastal ecosystems, a high-altitude mouse opossum in Peru, a rare brown spider in California, a deep-sea “smiley” snailfish, and three live-birthing toads in Tanzania—reminding us how much biodiversity remains unexplored.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5662605/five-new-species-discovered-2025

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Hacker NewsJan 5

A spider web unlike any seen before

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/science/biggest-spiderweb-sulfur-cave.html

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Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider.

The New York Times
N-gated Hacker NewsJul 3, 2025
Nature's groundbreaking revelation: Egyptians were... wait for it... from Egypt! 🏺🔍 Meanwhile, Nature.com struggles to figure out how CSS works in 2023. 🖥️🚫
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5 #NatureDiscovery #EgyptianHistory #CSSStruggles #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian - Nature

Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the Old Kingdom period.

Nature
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 26, 2025
🚨 ALERT: Scientists discover microscopic ocean drama! 🤯🔬 After 60 years of intense observation, it turns out #diatoms and #dinoflagellates have been battling for biomass supremacy in the North Atlantic. 🌊 Clearly, Mother Nature is more compelling than any Netflix series. 🎬🍿
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675 #oceanlife #marinebiology #naturediscovery #sciencealert #HackerNews #ngated
Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades

The North Atlantic Ocean has large seasonal blooms rich in diatoms and dinoflagellates which can contribute disproportionately relative to other primary producers to export production and transfer of resources up the food web. Here we analyze data from the Continuous Plankton Recorder to reconstruct variation in the surface ocean diatom and dinoflagellate community biomass over 6 decades across the North Atlantic. We find: 1) diatom and dinoflagellate biomass has decreased up to 2% per year throughout the North Atlantic except in the eastern and western shelf regions, and 2) there has been a 1–2% per year increase in diatom biomass relative to total diatom and dinoflagellate biomass throughout the North Atlantic, except the Arctic province, from 1960–2017. Our results confirm the widely reported relationship where diatoms are displaced by dinoflagellates as waters warm on monthly to annual time scales. The common assumption that gradual ocean warming will result in a decadal-scale shift from diatoms to dinoflagellates was not supported by our analysis. Predicting the effects of climate change likely requires consideration of the consequences for the whole community, the simultaneous change of multiple environmental variables, and the evolutionary potential of plankton populations.

Hacker NewsJun 5, 2025

Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/black-iceberg-labrador-coast-1.7551078

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A rare black iceberg makes waves on social media | CBC News

A fish harvester from Carbonear, N.L., snapped a photo of a black iceberg while fishing for shrimp of the coast of Labrador in mid May. It caused a sensation on social media, and impressed a Memorial University professor who says it's likely a very old piece of ice dating back thousands of years.

CBC
Hacker NewsApr 18, 2025

There's Life Inside Earth's Crust

https://www.noemamag.com/theres-life-inside-earths-crust/

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There’s Life Inside Earth’s Crust | NOEMA

Revelations about microbes living deep inside Earth’s crust are challenging scientists’ conceptions of life and how it evolves.

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Claire Motz ArtMar 31, 2025

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Hacker NewsMar 28, 2025

Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

https://www.livescience.com/animals/giant-fungus-like-organism-may-be-a-completely-unknown-branch-of-life

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Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

Live Science
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