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In one of the most unexpected announcements of today’s Nintendo Direct, Game Freak revealed Pokémon Pokopia, a game that is clearly inspired by the Animal Crossing series. When Pokopia is released sometime next year, you’ll assume the role of a Ditto determined to make a comfortable home for their friends. This Ditto has assumed the form of a human, and …

Nintendo has announced an impressive-looking Pokémon life simulation spin-off, Pokémon Pokopia. Players control a human-form Ditto which can learn the abilities of other creatures to shape the world around them. The Grass-type Bulbasaur, for example, offers the ability to grow plants, while learning from Water-type Squirtle will let you water them. You can shape the terrain by punching it, learning …

Bucks County is home to black bears, venomous snakes, and coyotes. But there’s another animal that’s smaller and even more deadly than any of these. And we’ve all faced down these tiny menances in our yards, in the park and while trying to enjoy the great outdoors. What is the world’s deadliest animal? Last month, the CDC released an article …

Considering we already had a Pokémon Presents just a month ago, I wasn’t expecting to see a new Pokémon game at today’s Nintendo Direct. Yet here we are, learning about a new game called Pokémon Pokopia, and it looks like a cross between Animal Crossing and a farming sim. In this Switch 2 game, you play as a Ditto who …

Deep in the steamy rainforests of Panama lives a spectacular-looking animal with an extravagant trick; the matador bug, Bitta alipes, sports vivid red patches on its back legs, which it raises and waves in a striking display. For a long time, scientists assumed this flamboyant performance was part of courtship. But a new study, published in Current Zoology, has overturned that …

An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any animal. The elusive species (Polyommatus atlantica), which is native to the mountains of North Africa, possesses as many as 229 pairs per cell. To put that in perspective, most other butterflies have 31 or 32 pairs. We humans have …

It’s official: the animal with the highest number of chromosomes is the Atlas blue butterfly, boasting a record 229 pairs. This is a pretty unusual finding since many of its closest relatives have just 23 or 24 pairs. The Atlas blue butterfly (Polyommatus atlantica) is native to the North African mountain ranges of Morocco and northeast Algeria.  It had long …

Soulmates of the animal kingdom: 8 creatures who never let ‘love’ fade  The Times of India Source link

By her own admission, Leslie Swan isn’t a very good self-promoter, but she needn’t worry as her credits do a great job of getting across her credentials for her. Over her 28 years at Nintendo, she has been credited on dozens of games as a localization manager, working on pretty much all the mainline Zelda titles from Majora’s Mask to …

Today, the biggest egg you can get your mitts on is that of an ostrich. The biggest of those eggs on record weighed in at an impressive 2.589 kilograms (5.7 pounds), or about the weight of a small house cat. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. It’s …