Charles Darwin called the plant puzzle “one of the most wonderful in the world. Since his time, scientists have pondered how the flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is able to accomplish the feat without benefit of the nerves and muscles of swift animals. Now researchers have found tensile strength is behind the plant’s speedy clampdown on a [...]

This post is something that we believe will be loved by any animal lover as we ourselves feel the same way. These photos speak much louder than words can, & need none to say what they want to convey.
These images display the amazing canine loyalty. This dog stood by his companion after been run over [...]

On the beaches of Big Major Spot Island, the Bahamas, a family of brown and pink boars and piglets live freely on the sandy white beaches and swim in the tropical surf

“We were in the southern Bahamas to photograph oceanic white-tip sharks,” says the 33-year-old. “Our [...]

A chimpanzee enjoys a piece of ice filled with peanuts and fruit bites in Amersfoort Zoo, The Netherlands

A sea otter tries to cool down near an ice block at Antwerp’s zoo in Belgium

Otters cool off with some specially made fish ice lollies at an aquarium in Southsea, Hampshire

Squirrel monkeys examine the fruit ice blocks in [...]

As a precious metals refiner, Leon Toffel is used to dealing with fine dust, perhaps produced at a bench by a dental technician.
But some years ago, when he received globules of molten metal in the post, he realised there was a new market to be mined.
Toffel’s new client was a retiring crematorium worker.
“We processed it [...]

The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3

An aerial photograph captures the plume of ashes spewed by the Chaiten volcano in Chile, on May 31

A soldier on the banks of the Rio Blanco looks at a cloud of ash from the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile [...]

Nearly 100, LSD’s Father Ponders His ‘Problem Child’
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ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging [...]

Burying Beetle Mom: Conscientious Cannibal?

Mother’s Day honors the bond between mom and child, but many animal mothers are more Mommie Dearest than Mom of the Year–at least at first glance. Take the burying beetle …
She’s a “bad” mom because … she eats her young in a deadly game of musical chairs.
Burying beetle larvae typically move [...]

Most monkeys are happy swinging in the trees of tropical jungles but from the look on the face of this one there is nothing like indulging in a hot bath after a long day.
These incredible pictures are of Japanese macaques relaxing in a hot spring in Yamanouchi, central Japan.
Nicknamed the snow monkey, the cheeky-looking animals [...]

He is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating characters in history: Rasputin, the self-proclaimed holy man who claimed to be a holistic healer, madman, womanizer, hater of baths and personal friend to the royal family of Russia. Even today he is a shadowy and mysterious character. He was also accused of being a spy [...]