Auditory mate or prey localisation is central to the lifestyle of many animals and requires precise directional hearing. In insects where the body is small compared to the sound wavelength the directional performance of auditory systems is limited due to the lack of diffraction and minute interaural time differences. Some...

Wild red deer on the Isle of Rum, which were featured in the BBC TV series Autumnwatch, are rutting earlier in the year, a study shows.

Clues about how the human gut helps regulate our appetite have come from a most unusual source – fruit fly faeces.

Professor Nick Davies has had a cuckoo named after him as part of the British Trust for Ornithology's cuckoo tracking project.