The baffling problem of why cows prefer sleeping on their left side
28 October 2020
Bovine laterality, plus an abundance of roundabouts and time-travelling ancestors in Feedback’s weekly weird round-up
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Exquisite plant portraits created using Victorian photography method
28 October 2020
These intricate plant images are a nod to Victorian botanical techniques, which used silver to expose the inner beauty of plants – here collected by photographer William Arnold on country walks
The first flying dinosaurs were a failed evolutionary experiment
22 October 2020
Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium, the first dinosaurs to take to the air, had wings made of membranes like bats, but they could barely glide and were soon outcompeted by birds
Dinosaur fossil with preserved genital orifice hints how they mated
22 October 2020
The shape of the dinosaur's cloaca, the orifice used for excretion and mating, resembles those of crocodiles, which suggests dinosaurs did have penises after all
Near-uncrushable beetle's exoskeleton could inspire tough structures
21 October 2020
The diabolical ironclad beetle is almost uncrushable thanks to two newly discovered features of its exoskeleton. Mimicking these could help us build tougher structures
