The cat caught a cold and blow a snot bubble with its breath. This footage was filmed by Mr. Xie, in Xinji, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, at 16:07, on September 24, 2024.

To stay cool in searing temperatures, the prickly echidna, an egg-laying mammal that lives Down Under, employs a somewhat unusual trick: It blows snot bubbles to keep its nose wet, a new study ...

Echidnas blow snot bubbles and do belly flops to keep themselves cool in the Australian heat, new research has found. The native animals are believed to be less tolerant to hot weather than other ...

An echidna’s snot bubbles coat the spiny critter’s nose with moisture, which then evaporates and draws heat from the sinus, cooling the blood.

The animals blow mucus bubbles from their noses to dampen the nose tip. The researchers discovered how the moisture then evaporates and cools the echidna's blood.

But how exactly does a snot bubble reduce an echidna's body temperature? When the booger bubbles burst, it wets the tip of their snout which can then evaporate and cool the blood just under the skin.

If you take a journey into the depths of the slime all around us, you find yourself starting to understand that mucus is a miracle.

Echidnas blow snot bubbles to cool a pool of blood at the top of their elongated beaks, researchers from Curtin University have discovered. They also perform belly flops on cool surfaces ...

Snot bubbles may help a short-beaked echidna cool off by coating the critter’s nose with moisture, which evaporates and draws heat from a blood-filled sinus, ...

Australia’s echidnas have developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles. This and other techniques can help the spine-covered mammals beat the heat, something that may be more needed ...

Just when we thought these iconic Australia creatures couldn't get any quirkier, it turns out they use their own mucus to beat the heat, new research has found.