New research reveals that rising global temperatures could jeopardise today's status quo for many kelp forests, with unknown implications for the productive eco...
Ocean upwellings are an important, resource-rich event in the lives of many marine animals. They occur as cool and warm waters mix and nutrients are driven to t...
The relentless upwards growth of plants is driven by the need for light. A plant's mission is simple: outgrow the nearby competitors and win the light, sometime...
Perhaps the most symbolic gesture of progress is the first footfall on new land. Think Neil Armstrong, for example. The first footprint on terra firma - one gia...
During your life, if only once or twice, you have probably taken a few stale crusts of bread and fed them to the ducks. One common cosmopolitan duck species...
South of the great barrier reef, there is an island where manta rays (Manta alfredi) group together. A recent study on these rays has revealed the secret that d...
Ageing – the reason we will all eventually die. Our bodies and minds change. We undergo physical and psychological alterations. Our tissues become worse at rege...
For a small ant in a big desert, life can be tricky. No less so when it comes to finding the way home. So when desert ants leave their nests, they use a suite o...
When many different whale species converge on the Gulf of Maine en masse to tuck into the same seasonal bounty of herring, they somehow manage to still keep to ...
Yes, really. Scientists have successfully bred see-through frogs. Researchers at Hiroshima University in Japan crossed two different rare colour morphs of the J...
