Animals

  1. Animals

    Chimps keep numbers high as forest losses mount

    African apes show surprising resilience in face of forest destruction.

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  2. Animals

    A naturalist recounts birds’ lives in the Scottish Highlands

    In Gods of the Morning, a naturalist chronicles how birds and other wildlife withstand the changing seasons in the Scottish Highlands

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  3. Animals

    ‘Prehistoric Predators’ is a carnival of ancient dinosaurs, mammals and more

    A new children’s book offers gorgeous illustrations and information for everyone about ancient carnivores.

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  4. Animals

    Seeing humans as superpredators

    People have become a unique predator, hunting mostly adults of other species.

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  5. Plants

    What fairy circles teach us about science

    Science can’t yet tell us how fairy circles form, but that’s not a failure for science.

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  6. Animals

    Hummingbird tongues may work like micropumps

    Hummingbird tongues work as elastic micropumps instead of simple thin tubes, researchers say in latest round of a scientific debate.

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  7. Animals

    Another tiny frog species found in sky islands of Brazil

    Another new species of miniature frog has been discovered amongst the leaf litter in the high cloud forests of southern Brazil.

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  8. Microbes

    Bacteria in flowers may boost honeybees’ healthy gut microbes

    Honeybees may deliver doses of probiotics to the hive to help feed baby bees’ microbiome.

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  9. Psychology

    Baby marmosets imitate parents’ sounds

    Vocal learning may work similarly in marmoset monkeys, songbirds and humans.

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  10. Animals

    A UFO would stress out a bear

    Scientists need to know how animals, such as bears, react to the drones being used increasingly to study them.

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  11. Animals

    Light pollution may disrupt firefly sex

    Females of a common big dipper firefly weren’t as flashy when forced to flirt in LED light pollution.

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  12. Animals

    Cougars may provide a net benefit to humans

    Cougars have disappeared from the eastern United States. If they returned, they’d kill deer, preventing many car crashes, scientists find.

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