If you’ve ever been out in the New Zealand wilderness, you might have heard a distinctive, low-frequency tone. It sounds less ...

All parrots display hooked beaks and four toes per foot – two pointing forward and two pointing backwards – to enable fluid climbing in treetops and to handle fruit ... to fly, it’s an agile climber ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained ...

Keep fruit flies at bay with this handy cleaning hack. The warm weather is a welcome sight for many reasons, but it unfortunately brings with it a season of swatting away flies, running from wasps ...

At worst, they’ll multiply into swarms, carrying germs as they go. That’s why learning how to get rid of fruit flies is vital, especially if you love a countertop fruit bowl. “They ...

The brains of animals are the most complex structures on Earth. The human brain contains about eighty six billion nerve cells, or neurons, and an estimated two trillion synaptic connections, where ...