“It all started when fishermen caught some strange looking sharks off the coast of Kenya,” says Dr. Rikke Beckmann Dahl of the Taiwan International Graduate Program. “They were recognizable as zebra ...

Every cuckoo is an adopted child – raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg. The cuckoo mother is aided in this subterfuge by her resemblance to a bird of prey.

Morphing used to be fun. Remember in Terminator 2 the computer-graphics effects that made it possible for the evil terminator to assume the form and visage of any person it encountered? The on-screen ...

A coral's color can tell of its resilience to climate change, and a new study has shed light on the underlying genetic factors that may be at work behind this. Anyone who visits the Great Barrier Reef ...

Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in flight. This is an adult male: Grey morph adult females have a pinkish-buff or buff background to the barring and the sides of the neck, and sometimes small rufous ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Black squirrels — a relic of ancient, old-growth forests — are now more common in cities. To understand why, scientists want to track the color of squirrels in your backyard. In 1902, an international ...