Karen Shanor
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“Research suggests that the earliest flying reptiles swallowed small pieces of volcanic rock and could breathe out flammable gases like hydrogen produced in their own bodies. It is hypothesized that their ingenious “fire breath” was used as a defense against predatory reptiles.”
― Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
― Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
“What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet.”
― Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
― Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
“Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks—the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip.”
― Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
― Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
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