Quartinia wasps can stabilize their nests in loose sand through special silk glands on their head. (Photo: Volker Mauss)
How can tunnels and chambers...
A silverback gorilla shows the famous behavior. (Image: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund)
A thundering tremolo resounds through the jungle: Why do gorillas hit their...
Great tit solving the task. (Image: Michael Chimento)
Not only humans and many mammals develop cultural traditions, birds also learn from each other. ...
In ants of the model species Temnothorax nylanderi, researchers have found abnormal behavior and changes in the activity of genes for immune and stress...
Nocturnal light sources attract insects. (Image: Johanna Reinhard / IGB
Nocturnal light pollution from street lamps, spotlights and the like disrupts the natural day-night...
Especially hawks, but also red kites and sea eagles often accumulate toxins in their bodies. (Image: Oliver Krone / Leibniz-IZW)
Sad "descent": In Germany...
The whitefly, which is around one millimeter in size, can attack over 600 different plant species. (Image: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo)
The "success story"...
Sauteur d'Alfort rabbits walk handstands on their front legs instead of hopping. (Image: Carneiro M et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics)
Rabbits, hares, kangaroos,...
Cultivation with plowing or no-till. (Image: Inger Struck)
No-till as a climate aid: If farmers forego plowing before sowing, the carbon dioxide emissions from...
From penguins to whale sharks: many larger marine animals have circular movement patterns. (Illustration: Narazaki et al. / IScience)
Sea turtles, penguins, sharks and...
Three elements in the structure of insect wings ensure that collisions and wind forces cannot harm them during flight. (Image: Hamed Rajabi)
Stable, durable...
Goats could solve the problems better than sheep. (Image: Christian Nawroth)
Because of similar: sheep and goats are genetically similar, in their physique and...
New discovery from the Messel pit: the Hirmoneura messelense fly (Image: Senckenberg)
47 million years ago it buzzed from flower to flower: Scientists discovered the...