The female chooses. Peregrines generally mate for life, returning each year to the same area and even the same nest. However, the female will accept a new mate if the first is killed. There’s ...

There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany, have discovered a conserved developmental pattern known as the ...

The sequencing of the platypus genome has received a high amount of misleading press attention. What does this information really tell us about this strangely unique animal and its genetic past?

When Europeans first encountered the odd-looking platypus, it became the centre of scientific debate: was it real or just an elaborate hoax? The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling ...

Developing new products is expensive and takes time, so businesses will usually try to extend the life cycle of a product and prevent it from going into decline. To do this, they need to find ways ...

A life cycle is the series of stages something passes through during its lifetime. We also use the term for things that are not living, like cell phones. The life cycle for anything you buy includes ...

Most alert and thoughtful senior marketing executives are by now familiar with the concept of the product life cycle. Even a handful of uniquely cosmopolitan and up-to-date corporate presidents ...

Beyond the essential ideas of broad access to food, housing, quality education, health care and employment, quality of life also may include intangibles such as job security, political stability ...

Researchers have designed a robotic “artificial skin” that is as unique as the team’s animal inspiration—the platypus. Created by collaborators between China’s Tsinghua University and ...

To help you choose the right water treatment option for your purposes, I put 16 different filters from the likes of MSR, Katadyn, Sawyer, Platypus, and Lifestraw through the wringer with a variety of ...

And these children will get older and may also have children, and so on. We call this a life cycle. As you grow older, how you look will change a lot. And one of the most amazing changes in nature ...