If you walk around a woodland in winter, you may be forgiven for wondering where all the birds have gone. In fact, there are ...

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In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a study published in ...

A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...

The amount of sperm released decreased sharply with each mating during a single day, reducing the males' fertilization rate.

In a series of near-comical and fascinating studies, scientists have uncovered a strange behavior exhibited by octopuses: they have been observed punching fish, possibly out of sheer spite. This ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

This is known as a murmuration and, during the winter months, these can occur nearby anywhere the starlings have established a roost. One of the best places to observe a murmuration is from ...

As I was collecting the quizzes submitted by readers, I reflected on my column. It floored me that I have been writing the ...

The walk could wait. I was staying to watch the show! Impressive though this was, it is not a patch on huge numbers which can gather in these ‘murmurations’. Thousands - sometimes tens of thousands - ...