Tag: zoology

Snuggle or Die: Sociable Monkeys More Likely to Survive Winter

A new study is the first to show that social huddling may be a mechanism that connects social bonding to higher fitness....

Read More

Repairing the Rainforest – It Works!

Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species ...

Read More

The Biology of Colour (and Why There are No Purple Cows)

Study explores advances and challenges in the field of animal coloration...

Read More

When the Whine… Stops. How to Manipulate Mosquitoes

Researchers use light to manipulate mosquitoes ...

Read More

Did You Know When Aussie Brown Snakes are even MORE Venomous?

Discovering the key to what makes the Eastern Brown Snake's venom even more potent...

Read More

Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole

Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation...

Read More

Going Anywhere for your Hols? Basking Sharks like Winter Sun too.

Winter habits of Britain's basking sharks revealed ...

Read More

Bite Me, Reptiles! Mammals Had Venom First

A kiss of death -- mammals were the first animals to produce venom ...

Read More

No Walls in Nature: Range Expansion in the Animal World

Challenging traditional theories on organisms' 'range expansion'...

Read More

More Moth News! Foreign Moths Invade EU!

Southern hemisphere moth species now resident in Portugal ...

Read More

Donald Trump Moth Discovered… On the Mexican Border

New species of moth named in honor of Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in as president ...

Read More

Check Your Pants! This Ethiopian Ant Could Conquer the World

New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion ...

Read More

No, Really. You Definitely Won’t Guess What’s Cooling the Arctic

An unexpected ally in the fight against climate change. ...

Read More

‘A thousand thousand slimy things…’: Sea Snakes in Iran

Iranian coastal waters: New home to a rarely seen venomous sea snake ...

Read More

What We Just Learned About the Greenland Shark

The unexpected title holder for the world's longest-living vertebrate...

Read More

Aphex Fin. Zoologists Reveal the Only Other Animal That Can Keep a Beat

Ronan the sea-lion: Best beat-keeper in the animal kingdom...

Read More

You’ve Heard of Catfishing, but Are You Protected Against Rare Blind Catfish?

Rare, blind catfish never before found in US discovered in national park cave in Texas ...

Read More

How to Castrate a Hippo

The procedure is notoriously difficult due to problems with anaesthesia and difficulties in locating the testes....

Read More

Our weekly newsletter

Sign up to get updates on articles, interviews and events.