Category Archives: Wild Life

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes … Continue reading →

How do these squid go from swimming to flying?  Four phases of flight are described in the research: launching, jetting, gliding and diving. While swimming, the squid open up their mantle and draw in water.  Then these squid launch themselves … Continue reading →

Sea robins, also known as gurnard, are bottom-feeding scorpaeniform fishes in the family Triglidae. They get their name from their large pectoral fins, which, when swimming, open and close like a bird’s wings in flight. They are bottom dwelling fish, living at depths of up to … Continue reading →

An international team of researchers, including an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, has an explanation for why we see so many hybrid moths in nature. The team closely examined the behavior and the olfactory circuitry of male moths … Continue reading →

The Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) is a large saturniid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, and common across the Malay archipelago. Atlas moths are considered the largest moths in the world in terms of total … Continue reading →

Scientists have today shown that caffeine improves a honeybee’s memory and could help the plant recruit more bees to spread its pollen. Publishing in Science the researchers show that in tests honeybees feeding on a sugar solution containing caffeine, which … Continue reading →

Human labor is long and difficult, so it’s only natural that someone be there to lend a helping hand — that’s where the midwife comes in. It’s not the kind of thing that’s typically observed among other animals, however. Imagine … Continue reading →

The true story – Thomas P. Peschak When this photograph was first published in Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife and later in Paris Match and the Daily Mail (London) it resulted in a flurry of e-mails, phone calls and letters from … Continue reading →

The research, which may ultimately help protect Alberta’s dwindling population of grizzly bears, is among the first of its kind to test the nature-versus-nurture debate on how large, free-ranging wildlife select habitat. Lead author Scott Nielsen, assistant professor in the … Continue reading →

An Australian researcher who discovered a new species of flying frog near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and named it after her mother said it was a rare find so close to such a big city. Helen’s Flying Frog … Continue reading →

Mountain goats aren’t goats, and king cobras aren’t cobras plus, most snakes are actually self-governing, solitary creatures. Check out this awesome chart of misleading animals names, via nature cartoonist Rosemary Mosco. See more of her work and purchase prints! on her website. Via Lies … Continue reading →

Periodical cicadas have such a strange life cycle that some have argued they can count, and have a particular affinity for prime numbers. That’s because their broods emerge after lengthy periods of time; in North America, they appear en masse … Continue reading →

An international team of scientists studying the elusive nocturnal primate the slow loris in the jungles of Borneo have discovered an entirely new species. The team’s analysis of the primate’s distinctive facial fur markings, published in the American Journal of … Continue reading →