The March Fair at British International School was a great day for kids – both big and small! Perfect weather, a great attendance and many stalls offering a large variety of products. Activities included bouncy castles, dancing, trapeze and, thanks to the hot weather, the try diving in the pool was very popular and the [...]

Male bottlenose dolphins organise gang-like alliances – guarding females against other groups and occasionally “changing sides”. A team studying dolphins in Shark Bay, western Australia, say the animals roam hundreds of square kilometres, often encountering other dolphin groups. The researchers observed the dolphins there over a five-year period, recording their movements. They report their finding [...]

If colossal and giant squid’s basketball-size eyes—two to three times bigger than any other animal’s — don’t see particularly well, what’s their evolutionary point? According to a new study, big squid eyes do have a “superpower” Captain Ahab might have killed for: sperm whale vision. The discovery began with an ultra-rare catch. In 2007 fishers [...]