Category: Zoology

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Zoology
Tagged
, AI bots, bugs, consumers, DuckDuckGo, Duke University, economists, fast food, food, food products, hypocrisy, insects, investment, Jeffrey A. Tucker, Nature (journal), nutrition, pasta, preference cascade, preference falsification, protein, protein bars, self-censorship, Sentient Media, Seth Millstein, social pressure, soldiers, Timur Kuran, United Nations}

To Be Honest, Most Humans Don’t Want Insect Burgers

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 23, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Zoology

3}

What’s going on here may well be a case of preference falsification, a concept developed by Duke University economist Timur Kuran. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, ball-rolling, balls, bees, behavior, biology, brains, bumblebees, cognition, consciousness, Finland, flowers, honeybees, insects, Lars Chittka, learning, macaques, mammals, natural selection, Pavlovian conditioning, pretraining, problem-solving, random variation, rock juggling, Science (journal), solutions, sucrose, zoology}

Bee-ing There: Innovative Behavior by Bees

_{Eric Cassell
June 15, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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The design of organisms that have sufficient brain complexity and that produce these goal-directed behaviors requires an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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Date
June 11, 2026

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Adam Kovac, Akshaye A. Bhambore, behavior, biology, bumblebees, cheating, flowers, humans, insects, neurons, paywall, researchers, Science (journal), Scientific American, sugar, tools, zoology}

When Bumblebees Cheat at Games

_{Science & Culture
June 11, 2026

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

3}

Perhaps the most significant aspect of the findings is in light of the fact that the bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 8, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Zoology
Tagged
, algorithms, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, automatons, bees, brains, Cartesianism, ChatGPT, consciousness, Greek, humans, hype, materialism, neuroscience, philosophers, rational faculty, rational minds, Science Daily, Singularity}

Of Bee Brains, ChatGPT, and Fists of Ham

_{Jonathan Witt
June 8, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Zoology

2}

Happily, a recent philosopher has provided some intellectual tools for avoiding the sort of ham-fisted either/or approach to consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, animal kingdom, BBC Wildlife, beak, bill, biofluorescence, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, ENCODE project, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionary biologists, gene expression, Georges Cuvier, German, human genome, intelligent design, John C. Sanford, lactation, mankind, Neo-Darwinism, New York Times, organs, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus, prehensile tail, sensory perception, sex chromosomes, spurs, stomach, tail, Tomoko Ohta, toxins, UV light, venom}

The Evolutionary Mystery of the Platypus

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 1, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

5}

The bill of the platypus is “the most remarkable organ for sensory perception found in the animal kingdom.” Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, adhesion molecules, barcode, blood, brain, Cell (journal), cells, Charles Darwin, cytoskeletal components, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, design logic, digestive system, dorsoventral, embryonic development, extracellular matrix, fortified foods, genes, gradients, hearing, Irreducible Complexity, lecithin retinol acyltransferase, lymph vessels, mice, Michael Behe, nasal tissue, neurons, nose, nucleus, olfactory bulb, olfactory receptor, olfactory sensory neuron, receptors, retinoic acid, retinoic acid receptor, retinoid X receptor, retinyl esters, Science Daily, teratogen, vision, vitamin A}

Nose Knows Better than Darwinism; Design Logic Explains Why

_{Howard Glicksman
May 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

11}

"By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 16, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Albert Newen, anole lizards, Antonella Tramacere, Antonio Damasio, Axel Cleeremans, biology, Carlos Montemayor, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Dogs, Eva Jablonka, experience, Gianmarco Maldarelli, horses, Jacques Singer, Jonathan Birch, Jonathon D. Crystal, Julio Hechavarria, Kristin Andrews, Krzysztof Dołęga, Lars Chittka, Léa Moncoucy, Lucia Melloni, Maxime Janbon, memory, neuroscience, Nicholas Humphrey, Noam Miller, Olga Dyakova, Onur Güntürkün, philosophy, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Royal Society, Sarah Skeels, self-awareness, Simon Alexander Burns Brown, Simona Ginsburg, T. S. Eliot, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin}

What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 16, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

17}

It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Read More ›

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Africa, ball-and-socket joints, cervical vertebrae, Congo Basin, embryological development, engineering, engineers, evolutionary adaptation, evolutionary theory, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, hero shrew, human embryo, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, nervous system, neural plate, neural systems, sloth, spinal columns, spinal cord, spine, synchronization, vertebrae, vertebral column}

The Spine, Human and Otherwise: A Miracle of Embryological Development

_{Stuart Burgess
March 19, 2026

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Zoology

5}

The sloth has ten neck vertebrae whereas almost all other mammals have seven. The sloth’s extra vertebrae allow it to swivel its neck almost all the way around Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amplitude, Andrew Schultz, Asian elephants, biology, cats, curb feelers, engineering, finite element analysis, frequency, interoception, Katherine Kuchenbecker, Marc S. Lavine, material intelligence, materials, Max Planck Institute, mechanosensors, medical devices, Merkel cells, neuroscience, peanut, potato chip, power, rat whiskers, rats, rodents, Science (journal), sensory neurons, stiffness gradient, vibrotactile signals, whisker breakage, whisker hairs}

Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch

_{David Coppedge
March 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

8}

Elephants can turn over a jeep and pull down a tree, but they can also pick up a potato chip without breaking it. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, ancestors, bedtime story, blood circulation, cells, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, giraffe evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, heart, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, missing link, okapi, Samotherium major, taxon, transitional fossils, variations, vertebrae, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Is This a Transitional “Missing Link” for Giraffes? Nope

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 28, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

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The giraffe’s fossil record reflects a pattern of abrupt appearance rather than the infinitesimally small variations. Read More ›