Grab fast and hang on for hours. A fierce grip is all the courtship finesse a male frog needs in species that reproduce in frenzied mobs.
Female European common frogs, however, have at least three moves that give them a chance of escaping overbearing male grasps, say evolutionary behavioral ecologist Carolin Dittrich and curator of herpetology Mark-Oliver Rödel of the Berlin Natural History Museum. The pair describe those tactics October 11 in Royal Society Open Science.
A scientist who starred in a David Attenborough documentary has been accused of faking data in a major study about the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Robert DePalma, a palaeontologist at the University of Manchester, published a study in December last year that concluded the dinosaurs went extinct in the spring.
But a former colleague, Melanie During at Uppsala University, has alleged DePalma made up data to support the conclusion – one that she’d already made.
During has filed an official
A holidaymaker was branded ‘selfish’ after she bragged about skipping long airport queues by pretending to have a broken foot.
Charlotte Rees, 32, slipped on a protective boot to trick staff as she flew from Manchester to Majorca with her fiancé Paul Brown, 33.
The small business owner was ushered to the front of the lengthy check-in and security queues then ditched the boot in the bathroom once she was through to departures.
Charlotte Rees, 32, slipped on a protective
