A team of Chinese and Bangladeshi scientists made use of a China-made real-time acoustic monitoring system — dubbed "tech ears" — to detect 146 Ganges River dolphins. The Jamuna, known as the ...
A tourist has captured rare footage of a marine mammal known as a skunk dolphin because of its coloring. The elusive marine ...
We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...
Experts at Imperial College London suggest homosexuality might help forge strong bonds that allow groups to stay together to ...
Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...
More than 190 students from 13 local secondary schools will take part in a year-long programme to gain hands-on experience in ...
New research shows that just like humans, vampire bats with deep social relationships use similar sounds as one another to communicate ...
A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common — ...
A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.
As 'Threshold' turns 30, there's still some potential in between all the weird space amphibian sex.
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When researchers from the University of British Columbia set out to film the solitary hunting habits of Northern resident ...