Animals / Wildlife

Parasitic Cuckoos Protect “step-siblings”: their stink repels predators You might have heard that certain species of cuckoo are “nest parasites”. One such species is the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) that lays its…

Deep from the permafrost of Siberia, researchers have taken samples of a 30,000 year old giant virus and it calls into question; what else could be down there? Thankfully this “giant virus” is not harmful to humans or animals in…

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, or Leonardo da Vinci as he is better known, or the blue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle as he is even better known, or Leonardo DiCaprio as he is perhaps best but certainly most-incorrectly known, was good.…

Rather than writing about the current science topics that are being taken up by the media, this time I will write a brief review of a book that I found fascinating and that I think many people (non-scientists included) would enjoy. I came…

This is a view of great antiquity and was particularly arrestingly explicated in 1802 by William Paley in his book “Natural Theology”. His was a version of the “Argument from Design” which seeks to show that such complexity could only have…

Opponents of evolution often point to gaps in the fossil record and suggest that this is evidence that evolution could not have occurred. Where are the intermediate species? It can be agreed without hesitation that there are not only gaps…