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How the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Changed Prairie Soundscapes
A total solar eclipse does more than darken the sky. For several uncanny minutes, it overturns the familiar…
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Island Land Snails Face Devastating Extinction Losses
If you need a quiet yet brutally clear indication of how severely biodiversity is collapsing on islands…
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How Dolphins Sleep with Half Their Brain
A dolphin can rest without becoming entirely disconnected from the world around it. While one side of its…
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5 Tricks to Encourage Your Cat to Drink More Water
The water bowl stays full for hours, yet your cat appears to pay no attention to it. Although many cats…
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Romundina gagnieri reveals early teeth in jawed fishes
A recently identified fossil fish, Romundina gagnieri, has shown that teeth grew on bony plates lining the…
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A Simple Ramp That Turns a Garden Shed into a Hedgehog Refuge
One September evening, as he was shutting up his garden shed, Marc spotted a small dark shape slipping beneath…
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Artificial light at night disrupts melatonin in Miami sharks
As the sun falls beneath the horizon, the ocean should become dark. For most of Earth’s past, night created a…
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Hannibal’s Elephants Took the Cheapest Route Across the Alps
A new study has estimated the energy Hannibal’s army expended hauling itself, along with its war elephants…
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Why Tree Frog Choruses Vanish From One Year to the Next
A tree frog perched on a porch rail probably did not originate in a pond. It is more likely to…
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Study Suggests Primate Calls May Use Supra-Regular Recursive Grammar
Human language is intricate and adaptable. It expresses our intelligence and cultures, as well as our desire…
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Microplastics Found in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Animals
A new study has detected microplastics inside animals inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents more than 6,500…
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How the Bearded Vulture Eats Bones
When other animals leave a carcass because little more than bones remain, the bearded vulture has found its…
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Pando: How the World’s Largest Organism Faces an Uncertain Future
High on the Wasatch Mountains in the western United States, above a lake fed by springs, lives one immense…
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European Grove Snail Slime Reveals Five Remarkable Materials
A European grove snail can glide across a brick on a layer of slime, yet that same animal can attach…
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Crows Can Count Aloud, Scientists Discover
Corvids are widely recognised for remarkable displays of inventive and intelligent thought, but a newly…
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Sea Urchins Face Local Extinction in the Canary Islands
Sea urchins have been vanishing beneath the waves, well away from beaches and promenades, and initially the…
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How to monitor your pet’s water intake: 5 essential tips
Maintaining good hydration is essential to the proper functioning of dogs’ and cats’ bodies, yet it is not…
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Mammoth Bones at Bukov May Reveal Repeated Ice Age Hunts
Woolly mammoths, elephant-sized kin of today’s elephants covered in dense fur, once travelled across the icy…
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Coral reef fish nursery habitats reshape development
Coral reef fish do not reach their nursery grounds as fully formed animals. The convict surgeonfish spends…
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CapuchinAI brings laboratory research to Costa Rican capuchins
A wooden box fixed to a platform in a Costa Rican forest can recognise a capuchin monkey’s face and select…
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Invasive species can force people from their homes
Invasive species have already driven people from their homes. At one ranch in Kenya, a cactus caused half of…