It lives up to its name once again: in the bizarre "alien" mantis from the Peruvian rainforest, biologists have discovered an organ previously unknown...
So far, Arabica coffee has dominated the market, but climate change is causing it problems. (Image: amenic181 / iStock)
When it comes to top-quality...
Beetles cause enormous damage in agriculture and in stockpiling. (Image: Red-brown rice flour beetle, Credit: Tomasz Klejdysz / iStock)
A bizarre, but poison-free control...
Invasive species in Europe: raccoon (left) and raccoon dog (right). (Images: left: win247 / iStock, right: Dorian Dörge)
In many places the problematic exotic...
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...