When summer temperatures soar past 40°C in the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa, birds have to find a way to avoid overheating. A new study demonstrates how s...
Bathed in sunshine, casting shadows on the sand beneath their feet, 'ships of the desert' are an iconic animal, synonymous with travel through romantic and beau...
What can teeth tell us about an animal that is thought to be the last link between mammals and reptiles? Quite a lot, actually. The recent discovery of fossiliz...
In the insect world it is common to find females laying their eggs and promptly leaving them to develop and hatch on their own. No parenting awards for them, pe...
Around 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a sudden cataclysmic event wiped out almost 50% of all species on Earth, ending the reign of t...
One of the most endangered insects in Japan has been rediscovered after thirty years.
The red-winged grasshopper, Celes akitanus, was known to inhabit semi-n...
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or so the saying goes. For female baboons, that may not be quite true.
A new study published in Nature Communicatio...
All ants on deck! Ants have shown something akin to veteran boatmen qualities when surviving flooding on their raft of interlinked bodies. In subsequent floods,...
Between 37 and 34 million years ago, a few intrepid monkeys, clinging to rafts of vegetation, were washed away from the African continent and towards South Amer...
Explorers and naturalists visiting small isolated islands have often remarked on the tameness and naivety of their birds, many of which appeared to be flightles...
