Can a slick video help secure the arrest of a Ugandan warlord? Joseph Kony, leads the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army, a group known to kidnap children, training boys as child soldiers and sexually abusing girls. Earlier this week, a US-based nonprofit organization, Invisible Children, launched a 30 minuite doco, “KONY 2012” which aims to make [...]

Talk about a dirty trick. Rove beetle males squirt an anti-aphrodisiac into their partners to make them unattractive. Along with their sperm, males of the polyandrous rove beetle (Aleochara curtula) deposit a strange pheromone into their partners. To find out what it did, Jerry Schlechter-Helas and colleagues at the University of Freiburg, Germany spiced 14 [...]

A murder of crows, a pride of lions and now meet the posse of sharks. Traditionally considered to be solitary predators, it turns out that sharks like hanging with friends. Johann Mourier and colleagues at the University of Perpignan in France have evidence suggesting that sharks swim in groups for social reasons. The team tracked blacktip [...]

A giant ‘cockroach’ of the deep sea has been unearthed off the coast of New Zealand. The beast, a ‘supergiant’ amphipod, was caught in waters seven kilometres deep in the Kermadec Trench, north of New Zealand. Amphipods are crustaceans commonly found in the deep sea. They are typically between 2 to 3 centimetres long, but [...]

Carbon dioxide in the ocean acts like alcohol on fish, leaving them less able to judge risks and prone to losing their senses. New Scientists reports Around 2.3 billion tonnes of human-caused CO2 emissions dissolve into the world’s oceans every year, turning the water more acidic. Philip Munday and colleagues at James Cook University in [...]

The sins of the father are indeed passed onto the children. High fat diets cause tiny changes in sperm that may lead to metabolic disorders in pups. The discovery brings us closer to understanding how lifestyle choices affect the health of future generations. New Scientist reports Maria Ohlsson Teague and Michelle Lane at the University [...]

Penguins drenched in oil from New Zealand’s Oil Spill have something to look forward to – a slick new wardrobe. Over a thousand oil-soaked birds, including 22 little blue penguins, have died since the 236 metre cargo vessel ran aground on the 5th of October dumping at least 350 tonnes of fuel into the Bay [...]