Environment
Zoologger: How did the giraffe get its long neck?
Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world.
News
Earth
Right whales yell over the ocean din
News
Life
Winning on home turf drives desire for future fights
News
Humans
Tibetans adapted to high life at record-breaking rate
News
Life
Plant nurseries in clover after finding four-leaf gene
News
Life
Nicotine and pigs’ trotters: the latest CSI toolkit
News
Earth
Ancient African lake fertilises the Amazon
News
Earth
Bid to introduce commercial whaling quotas fails
News
Humans
Rats have an innate concept of space – do humans?
News
Environment
How does a fish change its stripe? With Italian design
The neon tetra fish's striking stripe changes colour because tiny plates inside its scales move like venetian blinds
News
Life
British public ‘relaxed’ about synthetic life
News
Life
If there’s life on Mars, it could be right-handed
News
Environment
Why spiderweb glue never lets go
News
Life
Genetic on-off switch key to evolution of complex life
News