Cephalopods deserve higher welfare standards in research
You have full access to this article via your institution. Cephalopods such as octopuses are known to feel…
‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread
Researchers caught an African leopard on camera eating bats from a cave in Uganda. It might be the…
This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans
Kanzi the bonobo, pictured in 2016.Credit: First Run Features/Everett Collection via Alamy A male bonobo called Kanzi is…
Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size
Procoptodon goliah was 2 metres tall, but it might have hopped MICHAEL LONG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Even the giant…
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials
Ethics statement Approval for data collection protocols at Suaq was provided by the Indonesian State Ministry for Research…
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
The black mamba is one Africa’s most deadly venomous snakes.Credit: Matthijs Kuijpers/Alamy An antivenom using antibodies from a…
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex
Sex between Aedes aegypti mosquitoes lasts about 14 seconds.Credit: Jacopo Razzauti/The Rockefeller University Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue…
palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/Alamy Mark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged…
three ways she changed science
Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91.…
AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought…