If you're a predator that eats baby birds—say, an American Crow—eavesdropping on the begging calls of nestlings can be an easy way to find your next meal. But do baby birds change their begging behavior when predators ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2019
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Silently and without pause, the giant African snail has been invading Cuba.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2019
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The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was one of Australia's most enigmatic native species.
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2019
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Thousands of them plague our beaches to the horror of holidaymakers who dread their sting, but thanks to man's disruption of the oceans, jellyfish are thriving.
Ecology
Sep 24, 2019
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A prehistoric crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified—almost 250 years after the discovery of its fossil remains.
Archaeology
Sep 12, 2019
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A team of scientists led by experts from Trinity and a US-based NGO have just returned from the Bahamas where they learned all about the secret lives of the region's tiger sharks.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2019
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A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds.
Ecology
May 29, 2019
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At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the creature gliding through the water like something from ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2019
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At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the creature gliding through the water like something from ...
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2019
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Cane toads are exhausted by releasing their deadly toxin and will go to great lengths not to release it. They far prefer to run or freeze when a predator approaches.
Ecology
May 16, 2019
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