Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

Brown argus butterflies in England are spreading north and increasing in number thanks to climate change.

Santino, a chimp in a zoo in Sweden has become very clever in his latest outbursts toward visitors.

Squid ink melanin from 160 million years ago proves to be identical to melanin found in squid today.

The new book 'Before The Lights Go Out' looks at the transformation to new energy sources in the coming decades.

The oldest rock art found in Europe depicts female sexual organs.

Floating plastic debris in the Pacific provides a place for some insects to lay eggs.

A pliosaur fossil from the Jurassic indicates arthritis, a misaligned jaw and a broken jaw.

The bowerbird cultivates bright green fruit to attract a female.

Some guppies have developed orange spots to attract a female, but one predator has evolved similar decoy spots of its own.

Octopus DNA is providing clues about ice sheets of Antarctica's past.

When geckos shed their tails, the tails continue to move as a way of distracting predators.

A fossil tooth found on Crete belonged to the smallest dwarf mammoth, not an elephant as previously thought.

Rare Maya paintings and astronomical tables have been uncovered in the ruin of a 9th century scribe's workshop.

Male water striders without antennae are less capable of mating.

Three different groups of chimps in the same neighbourhood choose different methods for cracking nuts.