Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites
26 April 2022
Horizontal DNA transfer, once thought to be a rare event, has occurred between snakes and frogs at least 54 times in the past 85 million years
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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death
25 April 2022
For the first time, spiders have been observed escaping sexual cannibalism by flinging themselves away from females, reaching speeds of up to 88.2 centimetres per second
Bloodworms have copper jaws that could inspire self-building materials
25 April 2022
A worm with jaws that contain unusually large amounts of copper relies on a single protein to build its fangs
Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight
20 April 2022
Feathers of different colours have been found on a fossilised pterosaur skull, hinting that an ancestor of these winged reptiles had feathers far earlier than we thought
Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers
20 April 2022
Tourists can hand-feed some dolphins around the coast of Australia, but dolphins fed this way are less likely to form strong social bonds with their peers
