✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 15, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 15th, 2026

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In today's science news: The death of a Kanji-reading chimp 🦧, a strange fish with a drum in its head 🥁, and how horses can smell your emotions 🐴. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

The male red-winged blackbird’s song is a classic sound of North American wetlands, especially in the spring.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦧 Ai, the chimpanzee who mastered Kanji, dies at 49 • Japan Times

⚙️ NYU researchers have invented "toothless" gears that use fluid instead of interlocking teeth • New York University

🐠 There’s a tiny armored fish that uses a hole in its head as a drum • BBC Discover Wildlife

🪱 Meet the tiny "extremophile" worm that's one of only three animals in the Great Salt Lake • Vice

😅 Horses can literally smell your fear and joy through sweat • The Guardian

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