With all their grace and beauty, whales may hold the key to designing the next generation of renewable energy technology.
There aren’t many sights from the a...
New research led by the University of Adelaide and Flinders University has revealed that a possible treatment for type 2 diabetes could originate from platypus ...
A comprehensive study published in the journal of Global Ecology and Biogeography has explored the complex relationship between the colour of ants and the t...
Some snakes hunt by day, some by night. The eyes of these diurnal and nocturnal hunters have adapted to the visual challenges each lifestyle faces, and ultravio...
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...
The enigmatic Greenland shark has puzzled scientists for years. Growing to over 5 meters long, it spends its days swimming in the cool waters of the North Atlan...
If you can get away with it, should you cheat to reap the benefits? Perhaps not, if you are a paper wasp. New research has found that dishonest wasps are punish...
We have countless fossils at our disposal when studying extinct animals and the environments they lived in. But even so, it can be difficult to accurately recon...
Whilst in relation to their body size corvids and parrots have large brains, proportionally similar to that of monkeys and apes, the overall size remains small....
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...
