A story from Not Exctly Rocket Science describes the discovery that mosquitoes not only hear (it was assumed that they didn’t) but that they also harmonize in mating love songs with their wing beats:

To our ears, the buzz of a mosquito is intensely irritating and a sign of itchiness to come, but to theirs, it’s [...]

The owl in this video is a White Faced Scops Owl Otus leucotis. When confronted with a barn owl Tyto alba it puffs up its feathers and assumes a threatening stance to ward the barn owl away.
Now the thing about owls is, although they look big, owls generally have small, slight bodies. They’re [...]

Truthout has a great article by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship summing up the travesty that was 2008.  They liken it to the old Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup. And amazingly, the comparison is very apt.  Go read the article.

The famous Marx Brothers movie “Duck Soup” offered comic relief in the darkest of times. (Photo: [...]

Scientists monitoring at Mount Moreland - South Africa’s largest Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica roost - have captured their first overseas ringed bird from a festively snowy location. The young Barn Swallow had flown all the way from Finland – a total of 11,000 km! “This is an amazing Christmas gift”, said Hilary Vickers of the [...]