✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 6, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 6th, 2025

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In today's science news: Ancient artifacts in vulture nests 🪹, yogurt made with ants 🐜, and Americans bring home gold in the Cheese Olympics 🧀. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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Banded mongoose mothers can synchronize their births to the exact same day. When the alpha female has her babies, other pregnant mothers in her troop have their babies, too. “It’s a strategic move,” this BBC’s Animal Super Parents reports from Uganda. “The alpha female would attack the other pups if…

 

With children’s voices recorded in Greenwich Village, music by Bruce Darby, and a year and a half of hand-drawn frames, Traveling (1987) by Barbara Nislick Gates takes an animated journey through the alphabet. “I created it while I was an undergraduate in the Film and Television Production program at NYU’s…

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things you should know

📊 Researchers documented over 2,900 sinkholes displacing thousands across Congo • New Atlas

🏺 Spanish researchers found 700-year-old human artifacts preserved in abandoned bearded vulture nests • Popular Science

🐦 Cornell researchers discovered that birds worldwide share identical warning calls • EurekAlert

🐜 Yogurt made with ants is surprisingly good • Popular Science

🧀 A woman from Philly became the first American to win gold at the Cheesemonger Olympics in France • Good News Network

🐴 Researchers identified specific genes that made horses rideable around 5,000 years ago • Nautilus

🕷️ Scientists in Taiwan discovered spiders that keep captured fireflies alive as glowing bait to attract prey • SciTechDaily

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