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Marine Biologists Just Filmed a Shark Threesome, and It’s a Win for Science

Springer Nature’s Journal of Ethology has just published a study on a threesome. Yes, that kind of threesome—and it’s being hailed as a win for marine conservation efforts. That’s because the lovers in this particular trio are leopard sharks. Hugo Lassauce, a marine biologist from the University of the Sunshine Coast, filmed two males and one female of the endangered species mating in the wild in a first-of-its-kind video, shedding light on their natural reproductive behaviors. “The Indo-Pacif

Cats as Horror Movie Villains

Do people like watching cats because of neoteny? I doubt it, because adult cats don’t look at all like babies. But then why do we have this odd fascination with every ordinary action of a cat and treating them as instances of a Platonic Cat? I speculate that there may be an evolutionary psychology reason: cats in Africa prey on primates to a degree I suspect few people appreciate, and this seems to have been true for millions of years, making them our apex predator. So perhaps we are still sligh