While whales do need fresh water, they actually don’t need a huge amount, considering their size. This is largely because, in ...
By looking in detail at brain activity during sleep, scientists can figure out exactly what animals are dreaming of. Neuronal ...
A team of researchers have demonstrated how moss can act as a forensic ‘fingerprint’ when confirming details about a crime ...
Does a cuckoo know it's a cuckoo? The answer is more difficult than you might think, explains Richard Pallardy ...
In a horrific but easy-to-visualise scene, the ants grab its limbs and pull backwards, while the insect struggles in the opposite direction, where more hidden jaws are waiting to grab it. The ants ...
Stubbornly, I feel spring markers are for spring. Instead, I focus on winter markers.” Kate Bradbury on embracing the joys of ...
According to the Snow Leopard Trust, there are between 3,500 and 7,000 snow leopards left in the wild. An estimated 200 to ...
Tree planting rarely has a 100 per cent success rate first time around, Nicholson points out. When his company planted ...
Examples abound of animals appearing to predict natural disasters, with anecdotes dating back as far as Ancient Greece, when ...
Researchers placed the camera next to a tidal turbine to see how animals interact with the equipment in the water.
The students were blown away by the marine life on their field trip in the Azores, an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean ...
The moose is a charismatic animal that inhabits the circumpolar boreal, temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the northern ...