Animal world
How long can a bird fly without landing?
The common swiftlet (Apus apus) holds the record for the longest flight with the ability to stay in the air for 10 months continuously.
Nest
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Videos
Hunting for humped pigs, leopards are dragged back to their nests
The humpback pig used its physical advantage to fight for its life when caught by a leopard.
Animal world
What's up with the close-up video of the owl's nest that attracts tens of thousands of views?
British wildlife enthusiast Robert Fuller set up cameras in locations around Yorkshire to capture close-ups of owls' nests.
Animal world
What hasn't happened in modern times: World's rarest sea turtle lays eggs in Texas
Kemp's Ridley, the world's rarest sea turtle, recently surprised scientists when laying eggs on a beach in Texas, USA.
Environment
Heat wave in Spain caused hundreds of young swallows to be 'baked'
Hundreds of young swallows littered the streets of the southern part of the country after falling from their nests due to the impact of the heat wave.
Animal world
Why do birds with cup-shaped nests have a higher survival rate than birds with dome-shaped nests?
Some birds have elaborate dome-building habits, although many ecologists have long argued that dome-shaped nests better protect birds from threats such as predators or t…
Scientific application
How the Ancient Chinese Control Pests
Everyone knows that pesticides are very toxic, but we all need to eat them and not everyone can afford them... Pest control...
Animal world
Top 6 animals that know how to use tools that no one expected
You may have heard of chimpanzees and crows using assistive devices, but what about alligators?
Animal world
Crows cause riots, causing an American town to use lasers to scare them away
An American town had to use a laser to scare away thousands of crows that caused a local riot.
Oceanography
Detecting a population of 60 million ice fish nests on the bottom of the Antarctic sea
Researchers discovered a huge population of ice fish (notothenioids) in the Weddell Sea south of Antarctica in a report published January 13 in the journal Current Biolo…
Animal world
Many sea creatures form flocks and nest on plastic trash floating in the ocean
Called the neo-ocean community, swarms of these creatures are growing in the Pacific Garbage Island area and drifting with the currents.
Animal world
New discovery: Ants 'vomit' into each other's mouths to form social relations
New research shows that the act of vomiting into each other's mouth is not only to pass food to each other, but also to form social relationships.
Discover science
Found a diamond nested in a super rare 1,400 million year old diamond
A mining company has discovered a diamond within a super-rare diamond in western Australia, estimated to be thousands of millions of years old.
Archeology
Discovered a dinosaur nest with more than 100 eggs and 80 skeletons
Paleontologists have found 100 eggs and 80 skeletons of a dinosaur named Mussaurus at a site where they once lived in Argentina's Patagonian plateau.
Biology
Discovering a 10-storey honeycomb as big as a house, the villagers took it down to register a Guinness record
If you think that a honeycomb is only as big as a hand, you are wrong, this super hive must use an industrial crane to remove it.