Reindeer rebuild the reflective tissue behind their eyes from gold in summer to deep blue in winter
Aug 22, 2026
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While a zebra finch sings, the two halves of its brain coordinate within a fraction of a millisecond
Aug 21, 2026
Young reef octopuses do not slap every fish that gets close
Aug 21, 2026
An accidental laboratory flood revealed that hibernating queen bumblebees can survive completely underwater for seven days
Aug 21, 2026
A radio backpack lighter than a raindrop is now riding on monarch butterflies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
What looks like a healthy tree standing alone after its neighbour was removed is often a tree in slow crisis
Aug 21, 2026
Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest…
Aug 21, 2026
We picture fertilization as millions of sperm racing alone
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder
Aug 21, 2026
A lion’s roar can travel eight kilometres across open savanna, but it is not only a war cry
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
For decades, the standard claim was that bacteria in your body outnumbered your own cells ten to one
Aug 20, 2026
More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026