For creatures great and small, a dose of birth controlFor creatures great and...
Take a three-tonne African elephant and a scrawny New York subway rat and you have yourself two creatures that bear little resemblance to each other. One thing that connects them is some small and...
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Sheep and cute clapboard farmhouses aside, a few other (more unusual) things grab your attention if you happen to be road-tripping across the New Zealand countryside. There’s the surprising...
View ArticleThe western black rhino extinction is not newsThe western black rhino...
The western black rhinoceros is extinct … and it’s been extinct for some time now. An extensive survey carried out all the way back in 2006 failed to unearth any signs of it – no spoor, no dung, no...
View ArticleCould this be the world's only footage of this unusual moss mantis?Could this...
In early August 2012, while strolling in the mountains of central Costa Rica, photographer Oscar Blanco spotted a tiny praying mantis. Adorned with leaf-like protrusions, the mantis perfectly mimicked...
View ArticleMeet the endangered species that inspired Catching Fire's terrifying...
(Mild, non-catastrophic spoilers ahead.) It's possibly the most jump-out-of-your-seat moment in the second instalment of the Hunger Games saga: the attack of the fanged, screeching and spectacularly...
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