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Wildlife hotspots thanks to livestock dung heaps?
Some of the African savannah’s most biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of manure deposited over thousands of years by livestock of wandering herders, says a new study.
September 7, 2018
Tropical Storm Gordon has made landfall
One death has been reported so far from the storm. Gordon's winds were just below hurricane-force last night when it made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border.
September 5, 2018
Love vines suck life from wasps, leaving mummies
For the first time, biologists have documented dueling parasites in South Florida. When love vines do battle with gall wasps, the result is wasp mummies.
September 5, 2018
Watch it get hotter, 1880-2017
An anomaly is something that deviates from what's standard, or expected. This global warming visualization - created by Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute - shows yearly temperature anomalies by country.
September 4, 2018
Why you can smell rain
What you're smelling is petrichor – a pleasant, earthy scent that accompanies a storm's first raindrops. A weather expert explains where it comes from.
September 2, 2018
Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause
Besides humans, only 4 species are known to experience menopause, and they're all whales – belugas, narwhals, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales.
August 31, 2018
Hybrid super-snakes in South Florida?
Interbreeding between Burmese and Indian pythons in South Florida might have resulted in what geneticists call "hybrid vigor." One result is that the snakes seem to have adapted to both swamps and high, dry ground.
August 29, 2018
How a volcano helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo
In June 1815, the Allied army defeated Napoleon’s army at Waterloo. An Indonesian volcano helped, says a scientist at Imperial College London.
August 29, 2018
Guessing your shelter dog’s breed? You’re probably wrong
“What breed is he? is often the first question people ask about a dog, but the answer is often terribly inaccurate,” said the author of a new genetic study of shelter dogs.
August 28, 2018
Why are some species more likely to go extinct?
Death is inevitable for individuals and also for species. With help from the fossil record, paleontologists are piecing together what might make one creature more vulnerable than another.
August 26, 2018
