Keen:
An ape in central Iowa is showing researchers just how smart primates can be ( Read more... )

This is horrible:
A mayor in eastern Germany has filed charges against workers at his local zoo for shooting animals and selling them as meat ( Read more... )

But nobody can witness evolution! Except, y'know, when we can:
A population of butterflies has evolved in a flash on a South Pacific island to fend off a deadly parasite ( Read more... )

Damn the Australian Age!

This article opens with the promise of meerkats. Its title is "Meerkats cuddle up as big chill bites". I never would have clicked on it were it not for the temptation of meerkats ( Read more... )

It's recently been discovered that some female sharks are capable of parthenogenesis:
Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without sperm from males, according to a new study of the asexual reproduction of a hammerhead in a U.S. zoo ( Read more... )

Have you ever wanted to see a bear kill a moose and eat its heart? Well, apparently now you can!
Gary got up, expecting to see a bear in the trash or a similar scene. He saw the bear all right, but the rest of the scene was beyond imagination ( Read more... )

The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose

--Haldane's LawA study was published recently on the "coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowl". That is, it has long been recognized that there is a wide amount of variation in penises among those species of birds that have them. But no-one, ( Read more... )

One tactic that creationists like to use to attack evolution is to bring up biological systems that they think are so complex, they couldn't have happened by "accident", and therefore must be the product of a designer. The human eye is a favorite one.

I kind of wonder what they would think, then, of the eyes of box jellyfish:
Unlike normal ( Read more... )

Next, they learn how to use guns:
Researchers have witnessed a chimpanzee skewering a lemur-like creature for supper, but it's unclear whether the spectacle was a bit of luck or an indication that chimps have a more advanced ability to hunt than was thought ( Read more... )

Elephants may be self-aware:
In a 2005 experiment, Happy faced her reflection in an 8-by-8-foot mirror and repeatedly used her trunk to touch an "X" painted above her eye. The elephant could not have seen the mark except in her reflection. Furthermore, Happy ignored a similar mark, made on the opposite side of her head in paint of an identical ( Read more... )