animal

Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record…

21 Sep 2018 1:09 AM

SCIENCE

Towards animal-friendly machines

Semi-autonomous and autonomous machines and robots can become moral machines using annotated decision trees containing ethical assumptions or justifications for interactions with…

6 Sep 2018 9:33 PM

SCIENCE

Biomechanics of chewing depend more on animal size, not diet

Chewing: We don’t think about it, we just do it. But biologists don’t know a lot about how chewing behavior leaves telltale…

30 Aug 2018 11:34 PM