30 November 2022
A life-changing visit to a research project in Uganda on banded mongooses has shown me how international collaboration, and travel, is vital for conservation where biodiversity still exists, says Graham Lawton
29 November 2022
Daubenton’s bats use false vocal folds in their throat to produce a lower frequency grunt for communication – the same structure that lets death metal singers growl
29 November 2022
A simple breeding experiment can identify genetic variants that make plants grow well without impeding their neighbours, improving overall yields
28 November 2022
Researchers have figured out how the Amami spiny rat lost its Y chromosome, and some believe the same fate may be in store for humans
28 November 2022
The bones of 2-metre-long tetrapod Whatcheeria reveal that it had an early growth spurt – a trait that was thought to have evolved later
23 November 2022
Male great bustards seek out two toxic plants during the birds' breeding season, and extracts from these plants have been found to kill common pathogens in the lab
23 November 2022
An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the 1930s reveals that army ants once lived in Europe
