1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (315+ words) Seeing a saber-toothed tiger on your TV screen is all very well and good, but what about sitting next to one on the couch? A new David Attenborough-fronted app, Museum Alive, aims to let you do exactly that, using AR…...

11+ hour, 50+ min ago  (555+ words) Ancient DNA indicates that humans’ ability and willingness to eat insects may have depended strongly on geography. Eating insects is normal in many parts of the world, but in much of Europe and North America, the idea still triggers disgust....

33+ min ago  (972+ words) Fossils of Spriggina floundersi from South Australia. Because the fossils preserve mirror-image impressions of the animals, a leftward bend in the rock indicates the animal turned right in life. (CREDIT: Scott Evans / AMNH) Spriggina floundersi was only a few centimeters…...

44+ min ago  (180+ words) Money wins quiet fights but votes win louder ones. What actually moves the public to act on AI, and why it decides which regulations and safeguards s…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (314+ words) The finding, made by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, shows that genes are not always inherited only from parent to offspring. Some genes can move, and in this case, the researchers directly observed evidence…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago  (300+ words) PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ New Tehri At a time when deforestation and environmental pollution are assuming alarming proportions everywhere, Uniyalgaon, tucked away into Saklana Patti of Tehri district, has set an example of creating biodiversity-rich forest through community participation. The…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago  (576+ words) We’ve all heard it, the story of the metamorphosis. The story believed by those not yet educated in the ways of wildlife. I first heard it many years ago laughing over a beer in Lonigan’s. Scott, the bartender, told me,…...

11+ hour, 59+ min ago  (670+ words) A plant misidentified for more than a century has been named as a distinct and threatened species in northeastern NSW. For more than a century, a bright pink flowering shrub in northeastern NSW was hiding in plain sight. Botanists thought…...

4+ hour, 19+ min ago  (325+ words) A school museum celebrated its second Nature Late Festival with a talk from a former BBC journalist. Roger Harrabin, a former BBC environment analyst, shared his experiences of entering journalism and how he became interested in the environment. Speaking at…...

4+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1053+ words) KATHMANDU — As a child, Shankar Tiwari and his friends killed birds for fun around Chitwan National Park in central Nepal, where they grew up. Years later, a foreign guest at the hotel where Tiwari worked took him birdwatching and turned…...