A wolf's howl can carry more than 6 miles in open country
By Mal James · Aug 9, 2026
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In 2023, conservationists fitted a young bull elephant in Zambia with a GPS collar
By Daniel Moran · Aug 8, 2026
Scientists painted black cows with white stripes to test whether zebra markings deter biting flies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
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
Twin and biological-age studies suggest chronic stress can contribute to how old people look
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
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…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 5, 2026
Dogs are supposed to steal forbidden food more often when their owner's eyes are closed, and when researchers ran the test on hunting dogs…
By Chris Jeremia · Aug 4, 2026
The famous goal of 10,000 steps a day was never based on science
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
There is no such thing as a tree in the biological sense
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 1, 2026
A 2019 study in Science found North America has lost 2.9 billion breeding birds since 1970, and much of the data behind it came from about…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 31, 2026
A humpback whale photographed off Brazil in 2003 was identified 22 years later in Australia, 15,100 kilometres away
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 25, 2026
How did a Central American country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation rates on Earth to doubling its forest…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 23, 2026