In 1970, a priest sold 12,000 piranhas in Europe and used the money to help a community in the Amazon.
A piranha caught in a fishing net didn’t seem like a good starting point to transform a town. In Jenipapo, ...
Why do large dogs age faster?
A Maremma shepherd and a dachshund are indisputably very different animals despite belonging to the same species. It’s not just ...
The invasive snake of up to 6 meters and 90 kg in Florida has an unexpected enemy: robot rabbits
The Everglades in Florida have been facing one of the most difficult invasive species to control for decades. The Burmese ...
Not only dogs, even wolves smell our fear
We don’t notice it because we have a relatively weak sense of smell, but our body odor says a lot ...
He dug a small pond in the garden for a school project and 9 years later it has become an ecosystem full of life
In 2017, the garden of a family in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia (United States), was essentially an expanse of grass ...
In 2025 they eliminated an invasive fish from two lakes in the Pyrenees: 10 months later, the amphibians and invertebrates have returned
For years, two high mountain lakes in the Catalan Pyrenees were affected by the presence of a small fish, the ...
The evolution of disgust: How macaques avoid germs
When an epidemic of some disease breaks out (or even, as we well know, a pandemic), one of our first ...
The unexpected ally that protects the forests of Mallorca: 32 bat shelters help combat the processionary
In the forests of Mallorca there is an “army” that works when night falls. It does not carry weapons or ...
Was Greenland once ice-free? From the “forgotten” champions of the Cold War the discovery of what it was like 400,000 years ago
Analyzing samples in the 1960s at a secret US military base, a study revealed that 416,000 years ago summers in ...