The same chemical that helps turn people and lab mice into crack addicts may also cause locusts to swarm.
A team of researchers from the UK and Australia has discovered that serotonin seems to trigger the swarms of desert locusts, devastating crop pests that span a fifth of the globe.
Serotonin has been found in every multi-cellular [...]
Bats are in the news twice this week for two very different reasons: more has been revealed about their endearing social graces, and more is now understood about their unique vulnerability to windmills.
University of Maryland researchers announce in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that big brown bats keep [...]
Humans build fences. Dogs water fire hydrants. And new evidence is suggesting the owls might use their own feces to demarcate their territories.
The new finding, reported in the August 20 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, hasn’t been reported very widely for the same reason my ever-astute editors at National Geographic News declined to publish it: [...]
