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• Fish lose their unique personality when they go to 'school'
• What dinosaurs' color patterns say about their habitat
• Tasty letters? Sensory connections spill over in synesthesia
• Frogs and grasshoppers: Why do legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness?
• Freshwater stingrays chew their food just like a goat

Fish lose their unique personality when they go to 'school' Posted: 16 Sep 2016 10:50 AM PDT Despite individual animals having their own personality, this gets suppressed when they make decisions together in a group, new research has found.

What dinosaurs' color patterns say about their habitat Posted: 16 Sep 2016 10:42 AM PDT After reconstructing the color patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning "parrot lizard," a reference to its parrot-like beak) was light on its underside and darker on top.

Tasty letters? Sensory connections spill over in synesthesia Posted: 16 Sep 2016 07:46 AM PDT Neuroscientists have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and visual shapes.

Frogs and grasshoppers: Why do legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness? Posted: 16 Sep 2016 07:32 AM PDT New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than one that can take its time.

Freshwater stingrays chew their food just like a goat Posted: 16 Sep 2016 06:58 AM PDT A new study has found that some freshwater stingrays from the Amazon chew their food in a similar fashion as mammals.

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