Wild Wild Life newsletter: Horzontal gene transfer – when species steal each other’s genes

By Penny Sarchet Bemisia tabaci (male and female) Alamy Stock Photo Hello, and welcome to February’s Wild Wild Life, the monthly newsletter that celebrates the biodiversity of our planet’s animals plants and other organisms. To receive this free, monthly newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Spring in London is almost close enough to taste now, … Read more

Startling Video From Yellowstone Shows Freeloading Grizzly Steal Prey From Wolves

A video by the team at Yellowstone national park shows the extraordinary sight of a grizzly bear hunting alongside a pack of wolves, only to make off with their prey.  The footage, posted to the National Parks Service Facebook page in December, shows the multi-species pack hunting a large herd of elks. A few wolves break away … Read more

iPhone hack: NSO malware builds a computer inside your phone to steal data

An incredibly sophisticated piece of malware developed by the Israeli tech firm NSO Group works by creating an entirely separate computer inside the memory of an iPhone, allowing attackers to snoop and steal data Technology 16 December 2021 By Matthew Sparkes The hack targeted iPhones Photo by Richard Drew/AP/Shutterstock NSO Group, an Israeli tech firm, … Read more