Why are the Jackdaw's eyes so steely blue? It's a question that has been unanswered for years. But researchers from the University of Cambridge and University o...
A new species of sea cucumber has been discovered and named Phyrella mookiei, after Mookie, the pet wheaten terrier.
Mookie is an adorably fluffy wheaten te...
Shorter hunting seasons from melting polar ice leaves the polar bear scavenging on sea bird eggs; what could this change mean for their ecological community?
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A timely study suggests that damage from storms on coastal areas could increase up to tenfold, from £10,000-40,000 billion globally today to £100,000 billion by...
The 'gular pouch' of the male frigatebird is truly weird looking, inflated in the breeding season to attract a female, making it look rather like some sort of s...
Image: The Journal of Functional Ecology
This unique study shows that up to a quarter of wild guppies are conceived when their fathers are already dead, than...
Co-authors: Jack Bedford and Emma Simpson Wells
Humans have looked up at the night sky for thousands of years, and not just for a sense of existentialism; so...
Early development is a critical stage of any organism’s life: it is the period in which they learn behaviours that will aid them throughout adulthood and into o...
