Every cow, on average, produces 80kg to 100kg (CH4) of methane per year, a gas that has the nasty habit of depleting the ozone layer. The reason for this is enteric - in other words, it's related to ...

Montastrea coral from the relatively unaffected Curacao area plays host to many organisms such as this tiny sharknose goby - Boulder star coral image; Credit ...

What is Sustainable Transport? Sustainable Transport is sometimes known as Green Transport and it is any form of transport that does not use or rely on dwindling natural resources. Instead it relies ...

Dicraeosaurus dinosaur via Shutterstock Huge dinosaurs stored vital minerals in bones under their skin (osteoderms) to help them survive, a study has found. These 'skin bones' helped some of the ...

Image Caption: Disease-free coral colonies are rare during a white pox disease outbreak, but some colonies (such as those shown here from Molasses Reef) may have natural resistance to this bacterium ...

Elephants have evolved a novel strategy for regulating body temperature, which allows them to endure soaring temperatures during the day without succumbing to heat stress. Scientists at the University ...

Panthera leo - Looks like these two lions have had a tiff! - Lions image via Shutterstock Some images of big cats from the genus Panthera - the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard, defined as great cats ...

The field of Soft Nanotechnology moves in devious ways with natural and artificial fabrics. Titanium of course is expensive, with this hoarding costing £100 extra to have the coating. The ...

Delicate fluttering wings, fascinating hovering motions, dainty, beautiful yet extremely precious in indicating the health of ecosystems, and overall environmental quality, dragonflies are one of ...

Darwin's bark spider; Credit: GalliasM (Creative Commons license) etadshow468 --> The latest State of Observed Species (SOS) 2011 report was published this week. All of the species discovered in 2009 ...

Anyone who's ever visited a penguin exhibit at the zoo probably knows the cute little sea birds have a distinct, shall we say pungent, smell to them. But new research indicates that they while they ...

Mobula tarapacana via Shutterstock The manta ray (M. birostis) and the mobula attract people wherever they can be seen. Unfortunately, it's unlikely they will now be seen by many. Without our ...