Right beat

Stem cells can replace pacemaker

Stress saves

Stress hormone helps animals change shape to evade predators

A matter of timing

Mating puzzle resolved

What makes an animal clever? Research shows intelligence is not just about using tools

Species that use tools aren’t necessarily better at solving problems than species that don’t

Practical hunting

Hanuman: man, monkey or langur?

The Hindu monkey god Hanuman comes across as a mosaic of different beings

Why some bumble bees spend the night out

Bumble-bees infected with the larvae of parasitic flies stay the night out in the cold to hinder the development of the eggs

Turning on the sexually fastidious female

Recent studies confirm the reason why the males of many species have unusual or elaborate physical features is to attract the opposite sex.

Contending with Darwin

The man who chipped away at every presumption that defined evolutionary science

Why one cell becomes a nose and another, an eye

All living things begin life as a single cell, and one of the most intriguing puzzles for biologists is to understand how a particular cell knows …

Two important years in the hee of Charles Darwin

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin - Volume 7 (1858-1859) Edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith Publisher: Cambridge University …

Growing old in the wild

The conventional belief is that animals don't live into old age, but succumb much earlier to "unnatural" causes. Recent research, however, …

New vine snake species found after a gap of 113 years

Vine snake is a slender rear-fanged snake with narrow heads and pointed snouts

India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (Apr 29-May 5)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology

India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (Apr 15-21)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology

Reinterpreting Darwin

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Together is better

New algorithm shows how group size affects animals’ response to environmental changes

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (July 8 – July 14)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

A gory lab

Absence of laws makes China the new hub of primate research

India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (Apr 1-7)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology

Arunachal college spots 3 new fish species

The fish of genus Aborichthys are distributed in streams like Senki, Barap and Palin 

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Cryptozoology is not a quest for animals but for monsters: Peter Dendle

Professor of English and expert on folklore at Penn State Mont Alto tells Down To Earth that cryptozoology is not going anywhere as there is a …

She sells seashells

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