Pythons vs vipers: Venom, size, hunting by constriction or fangs, native range and how each family reproduces |
Image: Left/Python/Right/Viper/Canva They might both command a great deal of attention (and fear), but pythons and vipers have…
Bear-y good neighbors: humans and animals are learning to live together in an expanding LA | Los Angeles
Every year, as summer draws to a close and fall begins, California’s bears get hungry. Black bears have…
Outfoxed: How well do you know your native animals? Australians’ questionable quoll knowledge exposed | Wildlife
Most people identify wombats and kangaroos as Australian animals, but one in six people surveyed in Queensland, New…
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to…
I loved capybaras before they were viral – I’m so glad they’re having a moment
They look like giant guinea pigs, they eat their own poop, and the Vatican once declared that they…
In pictures: Abseiling Spider-Man and stunning sunrises
This week, people from across the region, including NHS staff and a web-slinging Spider-Man, abseiled over St Michael’s…
When did grey squirrels start posing a threat to reds in the UK?
Paskett, though, thinks there could be an effective additional way to control grey squirrel numbers within the next…
A man thought he’d found a stray kitten. It turned out to be a new species of wild cat
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Dolphins appear to ‘kiss’ off Roker, North East coast
The dolphins were photographed touching noses off Roker last weekend as a pod swam close to shore. Dolphins…
Reef fish on a Curaçao coral patch never bolted from a black disk expanding on an iPad below two metres a second, and that threshold sits just under the speeds at which bar jacks on the same reef were filmed attacking
Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of the thing…
Pod of rarely-seen whales herded past Whitstable coast
A pod of 25 whales which found themselves in the Thames have been herded past the Kent coast…
Norfolk Island tiger sharks: Why Norfolk Island has the world’s largest tiger sharks
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