Around 70 years after they became absent, fourteen wolves rode into Yellowstone in crates in 1995 and ecologists are still fighting over…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
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Most people assume a dog explores the world by sight, as we do, yet it lives in a world built almost wholly of smell, sniffed in stereo…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Plants do not synthesise vitamin B12; reliable dietary B12 originates with bacteria and archaea
Jul 17, 2026
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his handmade microscope, saw thousands of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of…
Jul 17, 2026
We tend to read a wagging tail as pure canine joy, but scientists who watched dogs closely suggest something subtler
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Scientists hid speakers along a third of a mile of hiking trail in Boulder, Colorado, to fake a richer birdsong chorus, and hikers who…
Jul 17, 2026
When researchers paired a human scent with the mechanical shock of a swat, female Aedes mosquitoes learned to avoid that individual odour…
Jul 17, 2026
Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand — they would suffocate
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Wombats are the only known animals that produce cube-shaped faeces, and researchers found the corners are not carved at the exit but…
Jul 17, 2026
A dog year is not seven human years: dogs age fastest when young, so a one-year-old is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old, and a…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
A fish believed to have died out with the dinosaurs was pulled up alive in a net, a living fossil that had been quietly surviving in the…
Jul 16, 2026
A 2015 study linked longer mutual gaze in some dog-owner pairs with higher urinary oxytocin
Jul 16, 2026