What if there were a way that didn’t involve CRISPR to give your offspring a natural talent for athletics? Well that’s totally possible as it turns out, because scientists just demonstrated it in mice, and it didn’t even involve [...]

Common dolphins in the North Atlantic are living significantly shorter lives, with female longevity dropping seven years since the 1990s. Researchers found this decline by analyzing stranded dolphins, revealing a 2.4% drop in population growth linked to bycatch deaths [...]

The recovery of the eastern Australian humpback whale population has been described as nothing short of a “miracle,” such that the majestic beasts number more now than they did before commercial whaling. When homeowners today along the coasts of [...]

A person who angers a crow might be remembered for years. These intelligent black birds can spot a face once, recall it perfectly, and even warn others about it. They do not forgive easily, and they do not forget. [...]

Mountain lions risk everything to hunt elk, prey more than twice their size. After ten years of monitoring mountain lions in Montana, this crew has captured this behavior on camera only four times. The post Mountain Lion vs. Elk: Rare [...]

After years of being hunting to near-extinction, wolves are making a comeback in some of their historical ranges in Europe and North America. With their return comes a growing concern that the predators are moving too close to human [...]

Uckfield charity helps rescue bears from cage at Armenian bus depot --- Two bears are enjoying a new life of freedom after being rescued from years of captivity. Max, a Siberian bear, and Minnie, a Syrian brown bear, were discovered in a [...]

You might think the world’s most powerful lizard is the Komodo dragon – the largest and heaviest lizard in the world, with a venomous bite to boot. But power isn’t always about size – and the world’s weirdest lizard [...]

They are an iconic part of Britain’s natural world, inspiring myths, fairytales and at least one of its most-loved children’s book characters. But the number of toads hopping through British grasslands, forests and gardens has almost halved in a [...]

Researchers are to attempt to rear swallowtail butterflies from eggs frozen in liquid nitrogen in a test to see whether cryopreservation could support the long-term conservation of Britain’s largest native species. In a groundbreaking project, researchers will freeze eggs [...]