Animals

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Animal and Plant Health Agency have confirmed 2,485 cases of bluetongue in the UK in the 2026 to 2027 season, more than the three…

Researchers reported Oct. 1 in Scientific Reports that the situation a group of elephants is in can be worked out from the sound of several of them rumbling over one another, not only from calls made…

A research team reports that brains as different as a nematode worm's and a person's change in the same measurable way under anesthesia: activity in any one part of the brain keeps less of a trace of…

Six small shoreline crustaceans of about the same size and diet, collected along the same stretch of central Mediterranean coast, carried very different amounts of plastic, and the spread tracked…

A Budapest research group has recorded brain activity in dogs and in people listening to the same speech and found that both species track the boundaries between words more closely when the cue is a…

Lifeguards on night patrol saw an olive ridley sea turtle dig into the sand and lay eggs near Seal Beach in Southern California on Sept. 16, and a second turtle nest, possibly from the same animal,…

Antarctic penguin colonies give off methane, and Spanish researchers have now put a number on how much. Chinstrap penguin colonies across the continent emit an estimated 0.49 ± 0.16 teragrams of the…

A study published Sept. 21, 2026, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that evolution does not prevent the black-browed albatross from declining under projected climate…

Great tits arriving from outside a population, rather than natural selection acting on the birds already there, explain when that population's genetics shifted and when it held still. Simon Evans and…

Sand hoppers on a southern California beach dig up to 10.38 kilograms of dry sand per square meter per day, according to field measurements published Sept. 16 in the journal JGR: Earth Surface. The…

Environmental DNA taken from water samples and interviews with local fishers have both placed Mytella strigata, a brackish-water mussel native to Central and South America, in the estuaries of Kerala…

Spray a field of peppers and most of the green peach aphids under the leaves die. A few do not. They carry a small change in the protein the chemical was built to jam, so the dose passes over them.…