Alcohol consumption among non-human animals may not be as rare as previously thought, say ecologists
Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving “drunk” after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed […]
Biochemistry
It’s not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeys
A monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually type out the complete
12 new Oriental weevil species discovered using advanced imaging tools
Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST),
More social species live longer
New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that species that are more social live longer and produce offspring
Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the ocean
There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that
Fossil hunters strike gold with new species
Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool’s
Newly discovered cyanobacteria could help sequester carbon from oceans and factories
An international coalition of researchers from the United States and Italy has discovered a novel strain of cyanobacteria, or algae,
Weddell seals in the Antarctic strategically time their most extreme dives to maximize foraging
Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world’s southernmost living mammal — the Weddell seal. These
What animal societies can teach us about aging
Red deer may become less sociable as they grow old to reduce the risk of picking up diseases, while older