Vampire bats are known for their amazingly complex social behavior. (Image: Michel VIARD / iStock)
Quirky and amazingly social: Researchers have gleaned new insights...
Individual parts of the flower of an African lily (Agapanthus africanus). (Image: Andrew Leslie)
Plants today are of great diversity and complexity. It...
A jagged "mane" is the trademark of the male of the northern crested newt. (Image: Burkhard Thiesmeier)
Because of local crested newts: The celebrities...
Controlled burning of undergrowth in Sweden. (Image: Staffan Widstrand)
In the face of increasing forest fires and bushfires around the world, new fire prevention...
In the RESAFE-Pig project, researchers are developing a sophisticated technical solution for needs-based pig feeding that enables resource and environmentally friendly husbandry.
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Need-based irrigation is of great agricultural and ecological importance. (Image: ollo / iStock)
When plants suffer from a lack of water, their leaves warm...
Gecko patent for stable landing: analyzed and technically implemented. (Photos by Ardian Jusufi, illustration by Andre Wee)
Natural patent with potential for robotics: Bionics...
Giant old tree on Kilimanjaro. (Image: Andreas Hemp)
The tropical mountain forests of Africa are a particularly valuable climate aid because they store more...
Ecologist Katrin Böhning-Gaese and moor researcher Hans Joosten (Image: Böhning-Gaese and Greifswald Moor Centrum)
One of the most valuable environmental prizes in Europe, the German...
Male or female? For some white-necked hummingbirds, it's hard to tell. (Image: Brian Sullivan / Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Usually female white-naped hummingbirds...
The "golden" spectacled bear (Image: Michael Tweddle)
In a previously unexplored area of the Peruvian Andes, biologists have discovered a spectacled bear with golden fur...
Reconstruction of three extinct rhino species. (Image: Beth Zaiken)
From the once large family of rhinos, five species have survived today, all of which...
