Animals

The tiny peacock spider has a colourful, mesmerising courting ritual that has to be seen to be believed.

Coral reefs are fascinating evidence of an extraordinary sea creature with unique functions.

Capybara, the world’s biggest rodent that seems to get along with everything.

These spiders copy themselves by sculpting larger duplicates complete with eight legs and animate them like puppets to fool predators.

The size variation in catfish is extraordinary—from the Mekong Giant Catfish to home aquarium species such as Corydoras.

Rapid colour change in mirror spiders, sequined spiders and similar ‘white’ spiders derives from crystalline guanine in guanocytes.

A new study shows that goats can differentiate between human facial expressions—an evolutionary conundrum.

Cannibal deer are observed eating carcasses, showing how meat-eating/carnivory began after the Fall.

Why does a sloth hang upside down for most of its life?

Some have speculated that the idea of atlatl/woomera-assisted spearthrowing came from watching herons use their crook-neck posture to hunt.

Sophisticated and rapid cognitive processing is required for birds to sing duets and 4-part synchronized choruses

Evidence is against Australia’s dingo being responsible for the mainland disappearance of its marsupial counterpart, the Tasmanian tiger/wolf/thylacine.

Elephant Genome Project overturns previously held evolutionary models, and discovers a new species of elephant.

What fish ate before the Fall.

A horse is a horse; of course, of course.

Why do animals help each other?