Putting this fundamental truth to one side, recent research published in Current Biology suggests that cats have a preference for sleeping on their left side. Of course, they do. That’s exactly the ...

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Russia's cyber attack on the Viasat network on the first day of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was the most ...

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A truly unusual find discovered in Japanese coral reefs, these strange creatures were granted their own species.

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The phenomenon was described by a professor as similar to "a pot of boiling pasta" – and it's happening to solid ice.

Palaeontologists have discovered a colossal new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus ...

Take people who believe Earth is flat, for example. You could present them with satellite images showing that the planet is ...

Ants stick to their tongue, like flies stick to fly paper, but the adaptations don’t stop there. Once swallowed and shunted further along the digestive system, the food arrives in a gizzard-like ...

Chatty harbour seals each have their own unique calls. Mothers use these sounds to locate their pups on the often-crowded beaches. The research examined how else the seals might adjust these ...