Collaborate Disseminate
A dramatic image of a soccer ball covered in invasive goose barnacles has taken out the top prize in this year’s prestigious British Wildlife Photography Awards, beating out more than 14,000 entries capturing the world around us.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Hare for it: 2024 British Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners
We’re a step closer to seeing a live woolly mammoth walking the Earth for the first time in 4,000 years. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of resurrecting extinct species, has now announced a ma… Continue reading Resurrecting the mammoth: Elephant breakthrough gets us a step closer
A tiny, newly-discovered minnow has measured louder than gunshots, jet engines or most competition-grade car stereos on the decibel scale – which raises the question: how on Earth was it not discovered earlier? It hasn’t exactly been discreet.Continue … Continue reading HALF-INCH FISH COMMUNICATES AT 140 DECIBELS!!!
There’s been a takeover of North America’s soil by scores of non-native earthworm species this past century. It’s time we pay more attention to the invaders and their potentially major impact on the continent’s ecosystem, says a new Stanford study.Cont… Continue reading The alien earthworm invasion is here, says new study
There’s been a takeover of North America’s soil by scores of non-native earthworm species this past century. It’s time we pay more attention to the invaders and their potentially major impact on the continent’s ecosystem, says a new Stanford study.Cont… Continue reading The alien earthworm invasion is here, says new study
It’s a question we’ve all wondered at some point in our lives: why do insects spend their evenings swarming around and bopping into artificial lights? Scientists have now come up with an answer using high-speed cameras and motion capture tech to map ou… Continue reading Insects aren’t attracted to lights at all – they just get vertigo
Scientists have long puzzled over why some dinosaurs had feathers and wings long before they evolved the ability of flight. Experiments with a robot dinosaur may now have revealed the answer – they used them for hunting.Continue ReadingCategory: Scienc… Continue reading Robot dinosaurs let loose to demonstrate hunting techniques
Most of us picture the megalodon as a Jason-Statham-hunting monster that looked like a giant great white shark, but that probably wasn’t the case. A new study re-examines fossil evidence and suggests the creature was longer and more slender than we tho… Continue reading Megalodon may have been longer than we thought, claims new study
Genetic and isotopic analyses have pieced together a remarkable narrative of a 20-year-old female woolly mammoth, detailing her health, social status and travels – even though her story is more than 14,000 years old. It offers new insight into mammoth … Continue reading Scientists chronicle the life journey of one remarkable woolly mammoth
The sex life of a tiny Australian marsupial known as an antechinus is already pretty bizarre. But now its mating season has gotten even stranger – and darker – thanks to the introduction of cannibalism, as observed by field researchers.Continue Reading… Continue reading Cannibalism seen for first time after marsupials’ suicidal sex sessions