Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have identified a way of determining the age of a lobster based on its DNA.
Lobsters are notoriously difficult to...
In the framework of an international research project, a team of scientists have demonstrated for the first time that asexual reproduction can be successful in the lo...
A new landmark study of over 300 sharks found that some species are extremely resilient to the stress of being caught and released in commercial longline fisheries wh...
Picture a skunk. You're probably thinking of a stocky animal, around the size of a housecat, black with white stripes, like Pepé Le Pew. That describes North America'...
When an organism encounters a threat in its environment, it is to the species' advantage to warn others of the peril. The microscopic roundworm C. elegans regularly e...
Plump and ponderous, tardigrades earned the nickname "water bears" when scientists first observed the 0.02-inch-long animals' distinctive lumbering gaits in the 18th ...
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered evidence that giraffes are a highly socially complex species.
Traditionally, giraffes were thought to have li...
A scientific report published in the new issue of the Journal of Veterinary Behaviour calls for a ‘pet-labelling scheme' to enable informed decision-making by consum...