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In 1987, researchers in Texas, USA, observed something astonishing inside the nests of the Eastern Screech Owl ( Megascops asio ): live Texas blind snakes ( Rena dulcis ). These snakes had been brought directly into the nest by the adult owls, yet they were not eaten by the nestlings. Instead, they remained alive, moving and burrowing through the nest material and debris as if they were another resident of the nest. Decades later, in 2025, a similar phenomenon was documented

Myanmar amber has long been famous for preserving a wide variety of fossils, and fossil flowers in particular have often attracted the attention of researchers. This time, two pieces of Myanmar amber from the Hukawng Valley in Kachin State, Myanmar, were found to contain a large number of well-preserved granules, including both winged and wingless forms. These amber specimens date to the early Cenomanian of the Cretaceous, approximately 98.79 million years ago. Two pieces of

For a long time, the Eurasian Scops Owl ( Otus scops ) has generally been known as an insect-eating owl during the breeding season, with a particular reliance on Orthoptera such as bush-crickets and grasshoppers. However, the finer details of its chick provisioning behavior have remained difficult to document. In this study, conducted in a peri-urban Mediterranean forest in northeastern Spain, researchers used a high-resolution night-vision camera to continuously record the p