These snails are certainly more colourful than the ones we tend to see in our gardens in the UK, but it's their beauty that has put them at risk of extinction. The Polymita tree snail is endemic to ...

Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed ...

Are dolphins and whales oceanic besties? Well a new study suggests they might be! Researchers Dr Olaf Meynecke from Griffith University in Australia, and Olivia Crawley, spent six months studying 197 ...

It starts with a giant egg and ends with an unforgettable forest omelette. Add snails, fire, and natural ASMR sounds, and you’ve got the most primal breakfast you’ve ever seen. Woman sells couch on ...

While migrating between their feeding and mating grounds, baleen whales transport massive amounts of nutrients across latitudes. This phenomenon is termed “The Great Whale Conveyor Belt”, prompting ...

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More on the topic of unusual units of measurement, in particular how to communicate the size of information. Attentive readers will recall Christopher Dionne’s suggestion that the scale of large ...

When the Mendocino Coast Whale Festival kicks off in early March, whale lovers not only peer ceaselessly out at the ocean, hoping to see a spout or a fluke, but they flock to their local libraries to ...

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Did you know that a group of snails is called a 'flock". Well it is in Julia Donaldson rhyming world and one of a group who live rather mundanely on an harbour rock dreams of going out to sea and ...

The Animation Showcase (TAS), a free streaming platform for animation professionals, is now showing two of the thirty-one qualified features in this year’s Oscars race. Adam Elliot’s R-rated ...