Thursday, October 28, 2021

Newly recognized tricks help elephants suck up huge amounts of water

 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/elephants-trunk-suction-biophysics-water-airflow


Elephants are the only living land animals to evolve a long, boneless appendage like a trunk, says Schulz. A septum stretching the length of the trunk separates it into two nostrils. But detailed knowledge of what happens inside that muscular structure during feeding has been sorely lacking





Super-Earth skimming habitable zone of red dwarf

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220801102941.htm