A Chinese man who was attacked by a giant Panda after breaking into the animal’s cage in order to cuddle with it did not apparently consider that the unasked for affection would likely provoke the beast. Link to full story here. Now I’m not the kind of guy that thinks a developed sense reason and […]

National Geographic has an article on the surprising evolution of lizards on an island off the coast of Croatia. Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island “In just a few decades the 5-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) lizards have developed a completely new gut structure, larger heads, and a harder bite, researchers say. In 1971, scientists transplanted five […]

Well it looks as though the Polar Bears might not all die, and Ted turner can let his crack anti-cannibal security team relax for a while. The world will not boil, not this year at least. According to NOAA Southern hemisphere sea ice (yes I know, no Polar bears there) is at its highest recorded […]

What better way to start the New Year than with some Monkey news? Smithsonian.com has a feature on Laurie Santos, an experimental psychologist and researcher who specialised in Monkeys. She has been doing experiments on primate cognition at Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Peurto Rico that is a controlled home for rhesus […]