Rays use chemical alarm signals to warn each other of danger
Danger in the ocean does not always arrive in plain sight. Sometimes it spreads as an invisible chemical…
Florida’s giant Burmese pythons are doing more than eating wildlife, they are transforming the Everglades by spreading seeds |
Burmese pythons have already earned a reputation as one of Florida’s most destructive invasive species, wiping out populations…
Prowling cats, pink dolphins and giant eagles: 16 incredible photos from the Amazon
Spanning the Amazon River basin of South America, the Amazon rainforest is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems…
Video of orca deaths shows fisheries monitoring, enforcement works – Minister Shane Jones
Two orca have been killed by commercial fishing operators in bycatch incidents, the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries…
Beaver rewilding: This city had a flooding problem, so it turned to the world’s second largest rodent for help
Summary An patch of West London plagued by flooding turned to beavers, extinct in the UK for 400…
Hidden beneath the Kalahari Desert is a 264-metre-deep underground lake where blind animals thrive in darkness |
Sixty metres beneath one of southern Africa’s driest landscapes lies a world that seems strangely detached from everything…
Mountain lions avoid busy trails to reduce conflict with people
California’s Santa Cruz Mountains lead a curious double life. Each year they pull in millions of hikers, runners,…
Watch sharks use manta rays to scratch unreachable itches
We all know how maddening an unreachable itch can be. Galapagos sharks have found a creative solution to…
Dwarf mongooses can predict conflicts with rival groups
Conflict rarely arrives without warning. Animals that share a landscape with rivals often read the danger long before…
‘They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option’: A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts
Corvids, including ravens and crows, have earned a reputation for being some of the smartest birds on Earth.…
Female bull sharks may reunite with the same partners year after year
Bull shark breeding is usually cast as a brief, anonymous affair. Two animals cross paths in open water,…
Bird flu kills thousands of baby seals on Heard Island in Southern Ocean
Research has revealed the devastating impact of bird flu on a remote Australian territory where more than 13,000…