Life
Dolphins off Western Australia carry sea sponges on their beaks while foraging along the ocean floor
By Daniel Moran · Aug 17, 2026
animals
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Life
The Nicobar pigeon, a flighted bird native to Southeast Asia, is the dodo's closest living relative
Aug 17, 2026
Life
Scientists have reconstructed the dodo's brain from CT scans of its skull and found an oversized smell centre and forward-facing, owl-like…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 16, 2026
Life
Wild African elephants appear to call each other by individual names, after researchers who recorded hundreds of rumbling calls in Kenya…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Life
Scientists tracked wild honey bees with a drone-based system and found each bee flies its own personal route and repeats it with stunning…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
During the 2017 eclipse, giraffes stampeded, Galápagos tortoises started mating, gibbons sang unfamiliar songs, and gorillas quietly got…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 11, 2026
Life
A wolf's howl can carry more than 6 miles in open country
By Mal James · Aug 9, 2026
Life
In 2023, conservationists fitted a young bull elephant in Zambia with a GPS collar
By Daniel Moran · Aug 8, 2026
Life
Scientists painted black cows with white stripes to test whether zebra markings deter biting flies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
Life
Only a tiny handful of animals understand that the creature in the mirror is themselves, and one of them weighs six tonnes.
By Kiran Journals · Aug 6, 2026
Life
The octopus bloom off Devon and Cornwall is only the fourth time this has happened in 125 years, and UK fishermen have landed more than…
Aug 5, 2026
Animals
Brazilian study identifies four Flavobacterium species in 11 aquaculture isolates
Aug 3, 2026
Life
The oldest known land animal alive today hatched before the telephone was invented
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Life
Most people think a goldfish forgets everything within seconds, which helps make the little bowl seem humane — but that is a myth
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026