Otters are copycats.
Why bigger isn’t necessarily faster: a look at animal speed limit
Larger animals are faster — but only to a certain point.
Llama-like creature Darwin used to call the “strangest animal ever discovered” finally gets a family
“Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope.”
Cute animal therapy can be exactly what you need to put the spark back into your marriage
Then again, do you really need a reason to take “cute animal therapy”?
Every day, this man in Kenya drives hours and hours to bring water to wild animals
Nothing short of an incredible story.
Climate change has already harmed more than half of all mammals
It’s even worse than we thought.
Deliciously funny finalists from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Nature… as you’ve never seen it before.
One it ten UK species faces extinction, State of Nature report warns
You can’t take 10% out of something and still expect it to work.
Cuttlefish can count at least up to five, new study finds
Can’t they do what we all do and count on their tentacles?
The Red Light Forest – Prostitution in the Animal World
For pebbles, meat, or nectar, these animals found that nothing sells quite as well as sex.
How bringing cougars to cities could actually save lives
These big cats could save a lot of people — if we let them.
CO2 in the atmosphere heralds imminent food chain collapse — and it’s gonna start in the oceans
The first global analysis of how marine environments react to the ever-increasing levels of CO2 that humanity is pumping into the atmosphere does not bode well at all for tomorrow’s would-be fishers. Published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the work of the University of Adelaide’s marine ecologists states that the warming and expected ocean acidification is likely to produce a reduction in diversity and numbers of various key species that underpin marine ecosystems around the world.
Some models no longer available: Earth enters its 6th mass extinction phase, humans accelerate the losses
Geological evidence indicate that our planet has seen five mass extinction cycles since life first appeared on the planet. While they sound like the kind of cataclysmic events that only beardy men with huge boats survive through (read that in a book once, so it must be true), they are actually an integral part of life. The cycles free up
Organ on a chip might end animal testing and improve drug research
Here at ZME Science we often report on cutting edge developments and various medical breakthroughs that offer novel treatments and such. Most of these drugs or techniques are first studied on animal models, and while they hold great promise, it’s most often than not that the desired response isn’t replicated in humans. This translates in millions flushed down the drain
Dolphins Have and Respond to Names
Humans are proud to be one of the only species to have identifying names and words that separate them from the other members of the animal kingdom. For a long time it was thought that humans were the only ones with a language. But it recently has been found that now they are not the only ones with such capabilities.
Sex with animals might give you penile cancer. Beware!
There’s nothing not to love about animals. Since the dawn of mankind, animals have offered humans food, clothing and company. However, some have ventured this relationship farther from its platonic grounds, and expressed their love for animals in a more… intimate manner. A recent study conducted by Brazilian researchers has found that more than 35 percent of study participants had at
Mississippi flood leads to hoards of animal refugees
Late this Monday, the Mississippi crested in at 47.8 feet (14.5 meters), just less than a foot below the city’s record, set in 1937. As the river reaches nearby city neighborhoods and Shelby County suburbs, nature has “put the pin back in the grenade,” said county spokesperson Steve Shular. Floods are really nasty, but for the local fauna everything’s gone
Animals all over the world against noise pollution
Pollution can take numerous and unexpected shapes; one of the not-so-deadly, but still extremely unpleasant types is noise pollution. You probably don’t notice it because it’s so common, but it’s a really noisy world out there; if for a few days you were to go somewhere far away from all the fuss and noise that affect us on a daily
Reclusive primate (loris) caught on tape for the first time
Wildlife researchers from Sri Lanka have reported photographing one of the world’s most reclusive animals, the Horton Plains slender loris, an animal thought to be extinct for more than 60 years (1939 to 2002). Slender loris populations are native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka and southern India have been in decline for decades, but unfortunately, this process sped up
The March award for awesome animal goes to THE MIMIC OCTOPUS
The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus is a species of octopus that grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in length and is naturally colored with brown and white stripes and spots. So what’s so special about it? The mimic octopus can literally mimic the physical appearance and movement of fifteen different species, that we know of (including, but not limited to