Youthful antics predict lifespan — at least for these fish
You snooze, you lose: young killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) that take daytime naps have relatively short lives. Credit: Andrew…
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…
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits
Animal handling and maintenance The strains used in this study are shown in Supplementary Table 1. C. elegans…
Crow funeral: When a crow dies why do other crows come for this death gathering? Science reveals unbelievable facts
If you’ve ever seen a group of crows gather around a fallen comrade and wondered why they’re there,…
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials
Ethics statement Approval for data collection protocols at Suaq was provided by the Indonesian State Ministry for Research…
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
The black mamba is one Africa’s most deadly venomous snakes.Credit: Matthijs Kuijpers/Alamy An antivenom using antibodies from a…
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex
Sex between Aedes aegypti mosquitoes lasts about 14 seconds.Credit: Jacopo Razzauti/The Rockefeller University Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue…
palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/Alamy Mark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged…
AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought…
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…