Similar to older people, more mature chimpanzees seem to prefer smaller, but higher quality, groups of friends. (Image: Ronan Donovan)
In youth, parties with...
Chimpanzees also understand simple grammatical rules. (Image: University of Warwick)
A grammatically sophisticated language is considered unique to humans. The basis for this...
Forest elephants in Ivory Coast, (Image: Sery Gonedelé Bi)
The region was once considered the kingdom of the forest elephants - the large populations of...
Cod hardly have any offspring in the western Baltic Sea. (Image: I. Oelrichs)
Scientists and fishermen are sounding the alarm: In the western Baltic...
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the Iberian mole and uncovered the basis of the masculinization of females. (Photo: David Carmona, University of...
Flagella, long fibers, bizarre appendages ... Researchers have gained useful insights into how cells can create so many different membrane structures.
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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...