The world's greenest city has agreed a further reduction to its lawnmowing policy to protect wild plants and animals in the Austiran capital Vienna. The council added the new location…
Two panda bears accidentally bump heads after getting startled by their keeper coming inside, and then leap into a defensive stance in which they protect each other's backs. Phone footage…
City officials in India have hired a team of animal impersonators to frighten marauding macaque monkeys away from G20 summit venues. The so-called 'monkey wallahs' can impersonate the wailing calls…
Hungry frogs trying to gobble up male wasps have found that their manhoods can carry a nasty sting in the tail, a new study has revealed. Scientists in Japan -…
Ancient Greeks kept their estates and farmlands together by arranging for first cousins to marry each other, a new study has revealed. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
Researchers have found out that humans have been using bear skins to protect themselves from cold weather conditions for at least 300,000 years. The archaeological team from the University of…
This is the moment a kingfisher that probably landed on a metal railing with wet feet and got frozen to the metal was freed by a passing jogger. The tiny…
Environmentalists have made an urgent appeal to protect wild bees after discovering that their numbers have plunged by up to 80 per cent. Britta Raabe from NABU - one of…
A study using 10 years of citizen science data from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s BeeWalk scheme has found that a variety of targeted conservation approaches are needed to protect UK…
A 'synthetic' embryo with a brain and beating heart has been created by British scientists. It features the foundations of all the body's organs - including neural and gut tubes…