A quick tap then startles their prey into fleeing straight into the open tentacles.
Qninba notes that falcons cache dead prey with flight feathers intact. “The fact that some live prey had been plucked ...
I shudder to think how often I’ve courted disaster, unknowingly, like this. The episode drives home a stark truth: out here, who detects the other first can determine who survives. Alert, we become ...
Japan's snow monkeys soak in hot springs for thermoregulation and to relieve stress – a new study suggests there is another ...
Once thought extinct, researchers are trying to find out more about this tiny carnivore to aid its conservation.
The rockhead poacher is a weird-looking fish. It has a large, bowl-shaped dip in the middle of its head. Scientists have long wondered why and a now they’ve come up with an interesting theory.
Penguins have such strong parental urges to raise chicks that adults who have lost their young will attempt to kidnap another ...
In Ehime Prefecture, Japan, there's an island that's famous for its cat community. But how did they get there?
The natural world has produced some of the most potent poisons known to science. Here are some of the deadliest to humans ...
In this rare behaviour, the dolphins push themselves vertically out of the water and ‘walk’ along using their tail.
Researchers say they are in a race against time to save the tree from a deadly fungal disease. In 2010, a bright yellow ...
After swimming about 60m, I notice a big, murky cloud. It’s blood, though it looks greenish in the water, and I realise that ...
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