16 December 2020
Coprolites, or fossilised faeces, have always been slippery customers. But now we can use X-rays to see inside them, they are yielding fresh insights into ancient ecosystems
16 December 2020
Fuzzy moss balls that colonise glaciers and move in perfect unison have puzzled scientists for decades. Now, thanks to some painstaking surveillance, they are finally giving up their secrets
16 December 2020
Once a popular ingredient, blackcurrants were ruthlessly eradicated from the US landscape after unwittingly assisting a crime against pine trees. Here’s the juicy backstory
16 December 2020
Evolution has produced a stupendous diversity of lifeforms, but there are some adaptations it never seems to produce, like flying plants or zebras with guns. Is there is a limit to its creativity?
16 December 2020
This poignant image shows two penguins huddling together as they stare from St Kilda Pier, Melbourne. It won Tobias Baumgaertner an award in Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards 2020
14 December 2020
The US government keeps wild horse populations in check with costly round-ups that use helicopters to frighten the animals into a pen, but some ranchers are now trying fertility darts
9 December 2020
Asian honeybees collect animal faeces and place it at the entrance to their hives in an attempt to ward off group attacks by giant hornets
9 December 2020
The origin of pterosaurs has long been a mystery, but recent discoveries show clear connections with a long-extinct group of reptiles
9 December 2020
Tasmanian devils infected with a transmissible jaw cancer become socially isolated and interact with others less as the tumour grows, which could help limit the spread
