A young pond swallow is begging for food. (Image: SteveByland / iStock)
Dangerous adaptation to global warming: If insectivorous birds breed earlier, they risk...
To what extent can values ​​be assigned to the services of nature? The environmental economist Bernd Hansjürgens from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental...
Examples of threatened carnivorous plants. (Image: Robinson / Krueger / Fleischmann)
A quarter of all carnivorous plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide, according...
Desert locust with an indicated polarization pattern of the sunlight. (Image: Keram Pfeiffer)
Desert locusts sometimes migrate several hundred kilometers. As researchers have...
Together with the common chimpanzee, the bonobos represent our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. The truffle-like mushroom can be seen in the...
Great Noctule (Image: Anton Vlaschenko)
Adaptation to climate change: Great noctule bat - one of the largest native bat species - shift their wintering areas...
Researchers have looked into birds' brains. (Photo: Tobias Machts / University of Tübingen)
On the trail of amazing bird intelligence: Two studies now shed...
The Australian fairy circles as seen from the helicopter. (Image: Stephan Getzin)
Mysterious rings: In Australia's arid landscape, grasses grow naturally in...
The loss of the mother can also have far-reaching consequences for the life of the orphaned chimpanzee. (Image: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project)
The...
For a high seed yield, sunflowers depend on pollinators like bees. (Image: Walter Farina)
You just let them smell the desired search object: According...
A Komodo dragon (Image: Achmad Ariefiandy / Komodo Survival Program)
The Komodo dragon - the world's largest lizard - is already endangered today. Climate...
On the trail of bird decline: Researchers equip several thousand blackbirds and thrushes with small transmitters in order to record them with the satellite-based...
What are the characteristics of the brain sizes in the various bee species? (Image: ConstantinCornel / iStock)
From honey bees to bumblebees to solitary...
A couple of clownfish are hiding in their home anemone. (Image: Evan Brown / Auckland University of Technology)
The hit movie "Finding Nemo" made them...