Spiders risk everything for love
University of Cincinnati biologist George Uetz long suspected the extravagant courtship dance of wolf spiders made them an easy mark for birds and other...
Scientists find blue-tongue lizards are born smart
As children, we have much to learn after we are born.
We learn to walk, to talk, to develop our social skills, and when we...
Cats kill more than 1.5 billion native animals per year in Australia
Pet and feral cats together are killing over two billion reptiles, birds and mammals per year in Australia.
Most of these animals are natives, according...
Scientists net 139-pound Oneida Lake sturgeon
That fish was THIS big.
Really, it was.
Researchers from the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point on Oneida Lake, in Bridgeport, New York, caught,...
Scientists solve the mystery of the disappearing jumbo squid
The culprit responsible for the decline of Mexico’s once lucrative jumbo squid fishery has remained a mystery, until now.
A new Stanford-led study published in...
Scientists prove insects also feel chronic pain for the first time
Scientists have known insects experience something like pain since 2003, but new study proves for the first time that insects also experience chronic pain...
Friend or foe? Fun facts about sharks
Sharks often get a bad rap, even though most species are harmless to humans, says Katherine Maslenikov, manager of the UW Fish Collection at...
Hundreds of sharks and rays tangled in plastic waste
Hundreds of sharks and rays have become tangled in plastic waste in the world's oceans, new research shows.
University of Exeter scientists scoured existing published...
Climbing the social ladder is a ruff business for dogs, study shows
Climbing the social ladder is a ruff business for dogs, new research shows.
Top dogs in a pack are known to assert their dominance, but...
Wind can prevent seabirds accessing their most important habitat
We marvel at flying animals because it seems like they can access anywhere, but a recent study has revealed that wind can prevent seabirds...