Quirks & Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

On their long migratory treks, elephant seals have the ability to sleep as they drift dive below the surface of the water.

Femal orangutans choose prime males when fertile, but intentionally mate with lots of different males when not fertile, so as to sew ...

Two groups of blackcap birds have become genetically different as a result of migrating to either Britain or Spain since the 1960's.

In the broad-nosed pipefish world, the male appears to be the perfect dad - until he cannibalizes some of his own embryos to give himself a ...

Dr. Simon Pollard, at the University of Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, has found a spider in East Africa that lusts after ...

Evidence shows that the Nazca people of Peru may have sown the seeds of their own destruction

A supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A has been hiding a mystery - just what was left after the star went boom.

But Dr. Shannon Digweed, from Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, believes that red squirrels use the same two sounds to let all ...

Dr. Annika Paukner at the National Institutes of Health Animal Center in Maryland has also observed the baby macaque mimicking the mother's ...

The ties that bind us to our friends and our communities, affect our health, our wealth and our welfare.

When Dr. Barbara Thorne, a professor of Entomology in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences at the University of Maryland, pit two ...

Resident killer whales off the coast of BC choose to eat chinook salmon, or go hungry.

Galaxies become large galaxies by eating smaller ones.