Their wings, on the other hand, have lengthened over time.
Even the most pristine parts of the vast Amazon rainforest cannot escape it: climate change....
Millions of years before hermit crabs developed their famous trick, penile worms used it successfully.
British and Chinese researchers come to this surprising conclusion after...
Artist's impression of a Cambrian priaps worm in the annexed shell of a prehistoric marine animal. (Image: Prof Zhang Xiguang, Yunnan University)
The beach...
It is plant-based, sustainable, scalable and incredibly strong. And thus a promising solution to the comprehensive plastic problem.
Pollution from single-use plastics is one...
The so-called Neptune grass forms underwater meadows on some Mediterranean coasts. (Image: Hydra Marine Sciences GmbH)
Fertilized by tiny things in the roots: The...
A thorough search for the sterile neutrino has turned up nothing.
The Standard Model of particle physics is very clear about neutrinos: the subatomic, elementary...
The faeces of hungry caterpillars have been shown to act as fertilizer for aquatic microbes, which in turn release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Major...