By studying how specific animals behave in contaminated landscapes, we are gaining more and more insight into the environmental impacts of such major nuclear...
Researchers have not seen it before, but have already coined a catchy term for it: kleptopharmacophagy.
Butterflies seem like such lovely, fluttering creatures. But...
The meteorite impact that killed countless organisms, including the dinosaurs, appears to have served as 'creative destruction' for snakes.
About 66 million years ago, Earth...
Smoke from the Australian fires over the South Ocean. (Image: Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology)
The terrible bush fires in Australia...
In contrast to the dinosaurs, the snakes were able to successfully wriggle out of the disaster. (Illustration: Joschua Knüppe)
For the snakes, the asteroid...
Groceries in the supermarket. (Image: Nodar Chernishev / iStock)
Our diet is an important driver of climate change: 35 percent of all man-made greenhouse...