Tag: rodents

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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

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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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, birds, capitalism, China, conservation, environment, fishing, human exceptionalism, humans, hunters, hunting, insects, nature, pollution, prey, reptiles, rodents, socialism, wildlife}

“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 25, 2025

Bioethics, Zoology

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The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, brains, chimpanzees, Darwinian assumptions, humans, intelligence, mice, moral choice, nature, Nautilus, neurons, octopuses, pain, primates, reason, researchers, rodents, self-awareness}

On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 22, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The world of life is full of intelligence. Its intensity varies not with distance from the supposedly accidental human but with the life form’s need for it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, intelligence, intelligent design, lobsters, mammals, Max Planck Institute, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, snakes}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, East Asia, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Paleocene, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, bats, Canada, carnivores, dinosaurs, Disney, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, mammals, Montana, North America, paleoanthropology, Paleocene, Paleogene, primates, rodents}

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cats, Darwinism, Dogs, evolutionary theory, information, intelligent design, lobsters, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents}

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

_{Science & Culture
September 16, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animals, bioengineering, blood vessels, computers, euthanasia, George W. Bush, hearts, Human, kidneys, lungs, organ transplant, pigs, Research, rodents, Science News, scientists, stem cells, United States}

Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death. Read More ›