A new study supports a burgeoning challenge to the assumption that pain requires a brain anything like ours.
- Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
Early warm weather has triggered a bumper season for Australia’s 30,000 fly species.
Box jellyfish have no brains, yet were recently found to be able to learn from touch. Many brainless organisms are now forcing us to rethink what it means to learn.
We wanted to understand the ways in which predatory animals eavesdrop on the sexual ‘conversations’ of their prey.
Starlings have an image problem in Australia. These drab invaders are best known as pests of orchards and shopping centres. If you take a trip to see their African relatives though, you’ll find starlings…
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