Topic: Biology Letters
Boa constrictors can sense the heartbeat of their quarry as they suffocate it, thus giving themselves the signal to know when the prey is dead ...
Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex on Thursdays on The Chart. Read more from him on his...
Animals from butterflies to birds have iridescent colours to draw the eye. But why golden moles? They spend most of their lives in near-darkness -...
The heart wants what the heart wants, and boa constrictors want the hearts in their prey to stop beating. New research reveals that the snakes stop ...
In a species of hawk, males dress themselves up as females to gain a sneaky advantage in the mating game, according to an unusual study published Wednesday.Most male marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus) are grey, but more than a third have permanent ...
The sex life of Octopoteuthis deletron -- O. deletron, if you prefer -- is a cruelly hit-or-miss affair, according to candid footage of the deep-sea squid in its element, unveiled Wednesday.No foreplay, no tender caresses, no fond farewells until the next union, just ...
Palaeontologists said on Wednesday they had found the fossilised remains of a giant bird that lived in Central Asia more than 65 million years ago, a finding which challenges theories about the diversity of early birds.The creature may have been taller ...
Paul Seldon/Biology Letters/Handout. Behold: the largest known spider fossil (Nephila jurassica).. . This is a big day for spider enthusiasts —...
IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) New research, based on an analysis of nearly 1,000 pairs of identical and non-identical twins, found that about...
The Royal Society's science journal Biology Letters has published a most unusual paper: it was researched and written by a group of children aged...
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Rare footage of whalefish, Cetostoma regani
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Chimpanzee making brush tool and fishing ...
Coverage of Biology Letters paper 'Design complexity in termite-fishing tools ...2009-03-04 -
Chimpanzees making and using brush-tools to ...
Coverage of Biology Letters paper 'Design complexity in termite-fishing tools ...2009-03-04
