Flanged males are particularly attractive to females and father more than their fair share of offspring. This raises the question of why more males don’t adopt the flanged look. The answer may be that ...
Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby ...
Head to the Pacific coast and you may encounter a gumboot chiton – a blob-like marine mollusc known affectionately as the ...
North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...
Discover the spider puts its mate in a trance. Mating may be one of the riskiest things a male spider ever does. Females are ...
Great tit chicks, for example, stop begging in response to a parent’s alarm call. And a study of blackcaps found that under very high predation pressure chicks completely refrain from chirping until ...
Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are ...
A new drone study reveals over 41,000 giant South American river turtles nesting on the banks of the Guaporé River between Brazil and Bolivia.
They do this as they need deep water to build their homes, known as lodges, in. The dams raise the water levels of a river, with the lodges providing a safe shelter from predators. Sophie is the ...
Other eye-catching species include the 140cm-tall jabiru stork, the peculiar-looking South American tapir and the yellow anaconda, a semi-aquatic snake that can grow more than 4m long – that's roughly ...
Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords ...
Nemotodes can certainly adapt to extreme environments, such as the deep sea, Antarctica and mines that stretch kilometres ...