As January approaches, many of our cities, especially Bangalore, start blooming with trees with pink flowers. These flowers are called...

We all know that dogs and wolves are related. In fact, it is shown that around 15,000 years back, humans started domesticating wolves and...

Have you ever noticed that butterflies have much bigger wings than other bugs? Their wings are so big, it makes you wonder how they can...

Something very sinister was happening on the shores of Odisha! A snail was caught attacking its own family!

Organisation of plant-seed disperser community on an Island in absence of regular small birds

The Great Indian Bustard (GIB) writes in response to the recent news article , I'm a big bird and can actually see. I'm not really...

Researchers from Bangalore studied the effect of varying levels of pollution on Giant honey bees.The study threw up some shocking results!

Males of fan throated lizards develop beautiful blue, black and orange colours just before the breeding season. We know that these...

Competition is a strong driving force in nature. We all are, undoubtedly well acquainted with the idea of competition. We have...

Males communicate using various body movements and by changing body colour within seconds! But why have so many different signals?

We all must have seen a small, papery nest attached by a thin stalk to the wall. It is likely to be the nest of paper wasps....

The way animals react to their predators does not have a fixed set of rules. However, we will expect that an animal should always try and...

Hybrids of blackcap birds flying in opposite directions take the intermediate direction of migration!

Most of us would have seen ‘Finding Nemo’ and absolutely loved it, for all the right reasons. However, if the movie was to be...

Check the 105 second video to find out how the 'not-so-good' males of some frogs and toads increase chances of finding mates!

Nest building, snake eating King Cobra females save their babies from themselves!!!!

Did you know that as many as 5-90% elephants of a population in India can be tuskless? Then why do elephants even have tusks? Check out the

Meerkats are mongooses which stay in closely bonded groups. How is it then, that one female gives birth to almost 80% pups in the group!?