How naked mole rat queens stop rivals reproducing
Naked mole rat queens produce a chemical that stops other females from reproducing.Credit: Neil Bromhall/Getty Naked mole rat…
Dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviour relative to the threat posed by different rival groups
Braga Goncalves, I., Morris-Drake, A., Kennedy, P. & Radford, A. N. Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict. eLife 11,…
Can an army of babies and dogs rescue psychology from its reproducibility crisis?
Baby Zoe sits on her mother’s lap and watches a puppet show featuring three shapes with googly eyes.…
Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
Male narwhals fighting over the carcass of a female off Baffin Island, Canada.Credit: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures via Alamy…
Raccoons Keep Picking Locks Even After They’ve Eaten the Reward. Scientists Say They Do It to “Forage Information”
A raccoon and puzzlebox from the experiment. Credit: Hannah Griebling The marshmallow was gone, but the trash pandas…
What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end
Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack…
This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic
Attention has been focused on avian influenza virus H5N1 in the past few years, but scientists are concerned…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…
Wild boar chases leopard away, IFS officer shares dramatic clip. Watch
Published on: Sept 06, 2025 06:03 pm IST A viral clip showed a wild boar chasing away a…
Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees
Kirmayer, L. J. The cultural diversity of healing: meaning, metaphor and mechanism. Br. Med. Bull. 69, 33–48 (2004).…
We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?
Could the bottlenose dolphin be the first non-human species to have its language decoded? tephen Frink/Getty Images; Shutterstock…
Lion makes hilarious escape as lioness arrives with cubs for babysitting. Video | Trending
Published on: Aug 10, 2025 01:00 pm IST A male lion quickly walked away when a lioness arrived…