For millions of fans, these powers belong to the world of Pokémon, but nature has been harnessing many of them long before ...

Here, ‘weirdness’ abounds. The platypus, for example, seemingly has the beak of a duck, the body of an otter, and the tail of a beaver. It lays leathery eggs like a reptile, yet feeds milk to its ...

Nature, in all its glory, is a gold mine of peculiar and fascinating phenomena. From animals with superpowers to plants with ...

Nature is weird, if you haven't noticed. Waxwing birds get drunk on fermented fruit, there are sharks that lay eggs which ...

EEL Energy and Exel Composites use biomimicry and carbon fibre to advance hydrokinetic renewable energy technology.

Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. With its putrid stench, ...

T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a new squid species. This squid buries itself in the seafloor. It waves its tentacles like plants. This is a new form of aggressive mimicry. The squid uses this to ...

The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years of animal rights advocacy and the work of a conservative activist. By ...

Moths are a group of insects in the Lepidoptera order and are often viewed as the plainer relatives of the more glamorous butterfly. However, moths are important animals in their own right. They play ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...