Hippopotamuses might look like they’re taking life easy as they cruise sedately in the water, but new research indica...
Despite what the name suggests, the slimy blobs known as slime moulds aren’t actually moulds. Originally miscatego...
A team of Australian geneticists has discovered that the gene that determines the sex of dragon lizards works differe...
Featherwing beetles (from the family Ptiliidae) are the smallest beetles known to exist, some less than a millimetre ...
Feeding on nothing but fibrous bamboo, the giant panda manages to maintain a lusciously plump figure year-round, even...
Scavengers are known for their lack of discernment – these animals will eat whatever they can find, whenever they can...
Tens of thousands of years ago in the Pleistocene, North America was roamed by fearsome beasts, including ancient cav...
It was long thought – perhaps naively – that humans were the only animal to take pleasure in sex. This fusty attit...
Purple-crowned fairy-wrens get frisky outside breeding season Researchers and ecologists in the central Kimberley ...
The estimate that one billion animals were killed by Australia’s 2019-20 Black Summer fires drew international attent...
In the first demonstration that a non-human brain can differentiate two languages, researchers at Eötvös Loránd Unive...
Who's afraid of cobras? Not gorillas and chimps! Recent research has shown that an ancient ancestor of chimps, gor...
