Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research
Leipzig Zoo in central Germany is a world-leading centre of great ape research. Recent studies have seen chimpanzees…
A gobsmacking 500,000 babies born at one time in one place… That’s one colossal delivery room
The plains of the Serengeti turn into nature’s largest maternity ward every year between January and March, when…
Cody Johnson fires back at critics, calls Alaska grizzly bear hunt a ‘conservationist effort’
Proposal to ban hunting, fishing in Oregon met with backlash A controversial Oregon initiative seeking to ban hunting…
Homeowner horrified after finding one of world’s most venomous snakes trapped in shower
A video from Australia is giving viewers a new reason to check the shower before stepping in. In…
He’s got golden hair, weighs 1,500 pounds, and he’s a rare albino buffalo. Bangladesh is calling him ‘Donald Trump’
With his shock of golden hair and trim 700-kilogram (1,500-pound) build, Donald Trump has been drawing crowds from…
Springwatch highlights Northern Ireland’s oldest trees at Crom Castle
Springwatch is continuing to broadcast from Crom Castle – and highlighted the oldest trees in Northern Ireland this…
A tongue-eating louse called Cymothoa exigua swims into a fish’s gills, latches onto its tongue, drinks the blood until the tongue withers and falls off, and then spends the rest of its life acting as a functional replacement tongue the fish uses normally to eat.
In the warm coastal waters off the Gulf of California, a small crustacean about the length of a…
Rare albino buffalo that resembles Trump now living the high-life after being spared execution
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Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items
When the team returned to the sites, they determined which decorations had been selected from the slush pile…
‘Shock’ as rare white-tailed eagle born in UK disappears in suspicious circumstances
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Ever seen a cave cricket? Australia now has three new species of these spindly, spider-like creatures
When you picture a cave, you probably think of an environment devoid of life. But for most caves…
Fluorescent spider and armored cricket among incredible discoveries in Angola
Summary An expedition to a remote plateau in Angola has discovered dozens of species potentially new to science.…