Articles by

Gennaro Tomma

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...

How tiny phytoplankton trek long distances upward in the ocean

It’s one of the most massive migrations on Earth: a huge biomass of tiny plankton that travel...

Dolphins’ open-mouth behaviors during play are like smiles, a study claims

Dolphins are known for what appear to be big, contagious smiles. But do they actually, well, smile?...