Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that ...

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KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with its low oxygen, low temperature and scarcity of food, poses severe challenges to the physiological adaptation of animals -- in which gut microbiota plays a crucial role ...

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The Caverns zone is probably our favourite attraction in the whole of Rainforest Wild Asia. Other than being an air-conditioned respite from the sweltering weather, it plays host to a multitude of ...

Several years ago, an international consortium of researchers revealed that based on a sample of tropical old-growth forest plots across the Congo Basin, the rainforest appears to be storing ...

In Africa, the earliest evidence of human rainforest habitation dated to 18,000 years ago. “Our results push back the earliest known presence of humans in tropical forests by more than twice the ...

Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global ... responding to shifting temperatures and rainfall patterns. Forest adaptation is lagging: While climate change is altering temperature and ...

Some animals enter a state of torpor to survive the cold winter, including the chipmunk. ©Breck P. Kent/Shutterstock.com When extremely cold weather occurs, chipmunks enter their burrows and start ...