Animals
When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees fly out, inspect possible new homes, and ‘campaign’ for their favourite with waggle dances, lobbying harder for better sites — and only once enough scouts have converged on the same spot does the whole swarm lift off together, almost always choosing well
Trapped cat is saved by café owner after meowing through the walls!
A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starved, effectively rebooting its life cycle, and biologists have watched it perform this reversal indefinitely under laboratory conditions
Shown its reflection in a mirror, a small reef fish scraped at a mark it could see only there, behaving as if it recognized itself – though the researchers stopped short of calling it self-aware
Cat vanishes amid massive farm fire – her owners' hearts stop when they find her
Soldier rescues vulnerable Hornbill, turns it over to DENR
Four wildlife rescue centres to become operational in UP soon
My day as a park keeper with London’s first pelican chicks
This is one of the rarest animals on the planet, with only about 800 individuals remaining worldwide.
Voracious pufferfish wreak havoc on the Mediterranean
Secrets To Creating The Perfect Home Environment For A Happy, Healthy Indoor Rabbit
Two species of sharks, including hammerheads, live inside the active crater of an underwater volcano in the Solomon Islands that has erupted at least 39 times since 1939, in conditions of extreme acidity, elevated temperature, and frequent violent disturbance that the standard models of marine biology say should make the crater uninhabitable for large animals
Dog owner makes heartshattering mistake while half-asleep: "She was convinced we abandoned her"
The Australian superb lyrebird can imitate almost any sound it has ever heard — chainsaws, camera shutters, car alarms, the calls of more than 20 other species — with enough accuracy that the birds being imitated often can’t tell the difference
Most of an octopus’s brain cells live in its arms, not in its head — only about 8 percent of its 500 million neurons sit inside the central brain, with the rest spread across the eight arms and the optic lobes behind its eyes, in a body design some neuroscientists describe as the closest thing to an alien mind humanity has ever studied
The Greenland shark lives roughly 400 years — longer than any other vertebrate on Earth — and when scientists sequenced its genome in September 2024, they found the species’ extraordinary lifespan appears to rely on enormous quantities of duplicated DNA-repair genes, in a biological strategy still keeping individual sharks alive that were born during Shakespeare’s lifetime.
Meet FIFA’s cutest fan in Mexico: Osito, 8-year-old rescue poodle mix winning hearts
Dog and cat were abandoned during a heatwave – and what the puppy does melts rescuers' hearts
Florida firefighters believe they're rescuing a dog swimming for its life – only to get a huge shock
Dog is home alone and misses owner – what she does next is shocking: "Alexa, call Mama!"
