Articles by

Gennaro Tomma

Rats are snatching bats out of the air and eating them

Bats beware. The ability to fly won’t save you from hungry, determined rats. In a first, brown...

Polar bears provide millions of kilograms of food for other Arctic species

In a single year, one polar bear can leave roughly 300 kilograms of prey for other animals...

You might be reading your dog’s moods wrong

Many dog owners can tell how their precious pooch is feeling, watching it wag its tail or...

Some sea turtles are laying eggs earlier in response to climate change

Green sea turtles are adjusting their nesting habits in response to rising global temperatures. Individual females are...

The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces

In the insect world, impostors could be hiding anywhere. When lifting a stone during an expedition in...

In chimpanzees, peeing is contagious

Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A...

For adult chimps, playing may be more important than previously thought

You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow....

For deep-diving whales, plastic garbage may ‘sound’ like food

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark. Emitting sounds that bounce...