Earth’s old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes and...

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created a storage medium that can hold 36 petabytes of data

<p>Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are widely applied in studies where a discrete-valued process of interest is observed indirectly. They have for example been used to model behavior from human and animal...

I still vividly remember my first walk through the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong in late 2013, the dried seafood part of this port city. I saw fins from tens of thousands of sharks that day, with e...

I received a message from a friend the other day. “Hey Brit, Mike found one of your tags”. I don’t know a Mike in New Zealand. But go Mike. Mike from Auckland found one of my tags washed up on a beach...

Barham et al. measure the body temperature of estuarine crocodiles over 15 years and find that body temperatures have increased over time alongside air temperatures and in patterns reflecting multi-ye...