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Table foods hazardous to pets
If you have a pet, you know that they can, at will, instantly orchestrate an Oscar-worthy tableside begging performance complete with pleading eyes, tap dancing feet, lip licking and tail wagging. |
Tasmanian tiger may not be extinct - scientists
Computer modelling suggests that Australia's thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was not wiped out by bounty hunters and may still survive today in isolated areas. |
Temptress wasps lure from afar
Female wasps become more sexually attractive as they walk away from orchid sex traps, according to an international team of researchers. |
The mother of all tortoises
Giant tortoises that live on the slopes of Alcedo, a volcano on one of the Galápagos islands, are far more inbred than those on nearby islands as a result of passing through a genetic bottleneck after an eruption there 100,000 years ago, a new study suggests. |
The spy tactics of plants
Light is not only essential for photosynthesis but also a crucial source of information for competing plants. An article in the March issue of Trends in Plant Science delves into the information-gathering tactics of plants which enhance their chances of survival when competition for light is high in plant canopies.
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The vole truth about lemming deaths
One of the oddest phenomena in the natural world - the sudden mass death of lemmings - has been resolved, according to a trio of European biologists. |
The Wollemi Pine of the insect world
It's been likened to discovering a living saber-tooth tiger or mastodon, a new planet or the Wollemi Pine. |
Tourism Stripping Everest's Forests Bare
Most visitors arrive by prop plane from Kathmandu, landing uphill on what used to be a grassy airfield in the village of Lukla, at 9,350 feet (2,850 meters) in the Himalaya... |
Turkeys May Not Be Stupid After All
An Oregon State University poultry scientist thinks turkeys are getting a bum rap. |
Turtles tough out shark attacks
Pregnant sea turtles are capable of suppressing the agony of a severe shark attack just so they can make it to shore and lay their eggs, U.S. and Australian researchers suggests. |
Turtles tough out shark attacks
Pregnant sea turtles are capable of suppressing the agony of a severe shark attack just so they can make it to shore and lay their eggs, U.S. and Australian researchers suggests.
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Turtles tough out shark attacks
Pregnant sea turtles are capable of suppressing the agony of a severe shark attack just so they can make it to shore and lay their eggs, U.S. and Australian researchers suggests.
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Turtles tough out shark attacks
Pregnant sea turtles are capable of suppressing the agony of a severe shark attack just so they can make it to shore and lay their eggs, U.S. and Australian researchers suggests.
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