What is the unsettling biological reason that roughly one-third of all humans are completely obsessed with cats?

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What is the unsettling biological reason that roughly one-third of all humans are completely obsessed with cats?

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Grass grows continuously from the base upwards

Every cheetah on the planet is incredibly fast, but they share a dangerous and bizarre genetic flaw.

What creepy biological mechanism causes some humans to engage in reckless, high-risk behavior like speeding?

Triceratops horns were longer than fossils suggest

Crocodiles do not experience negligible senescence, which is a fancy scientific way of saying they do not physically age or progressively deteriorate over time in the same pathetic, predictable manner that mammals do.

Colobopsis explodens is a fascinating species of Southeast Asian ant whose minor workers possess specialized, oversized glands full of a toxic, sticky secretion that they deploy through suicidal altruism.

A bigger world.
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