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
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Biology, animals, plants, and life beyond the human story.
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…
Jul 31, 2026
A humpback whale photographed off Brazil in 2003 was identified 22 years later in Australia, 15,100 kilometres away
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…
Jul 23, 2026
The oldest known land animal alive today hatched before the telephone was invented
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
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
It walked on two legs, wore a beak, and looked just like a small dinosaur
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
In 1856, workers quarrying limestone in Germany's Neander Valley pulled 16 bone fragments from a cave they were about to blow up, tossed…
Jul 20, 2026
It looked like a cross between a pig and a turtle, it had two tusks and a horny beak and no other teeth, it was hardly anyone's idea of a…
By Brendan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
In a pitch-black cave on the border of Greece and Albania, more than 100,000 spiders share a single web the size of half a tennis court
By Brendan Brown · Jul 19, 2026