The Australian Open doesn’t have full broadcast rights for all matches. So, its YouTube livestream uses AI to generate Nintendo Wii Tennis cartoon avatars that mimics the action on a 2-minute delay.

A man in his 30s was arrested in west Belfast on Saturday night after he had climbed a tree following two suspected burglaries in the area. It follows a “lengthy negotiation” with police and ...

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Cricket frogs, native to Virginia and North Carolina, demonstrate an incredible ability to skitter across water surfaces, challenging our perceptions of physics and animal behavior. New research has ...

Snakes, lizards and geckos – these are just some of the creatures sneaking into the country hidden in potted plants and cut flowers. Researchers from the journal Bioscience have warned this is ...

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Climbing the highest peaks in the world, those exceeding 8,000 meters, requires changes to one’s physiology. Beyond an impressive climbing resume and peak physical conditioning, actual bodily ...

When he realised it was a tree-frog that must have arrived with the cut roses from Colombia via Ecuador, he was stunned. He said: “Finding a South American tree-frog in a Sheffield florist was ...

A Colombian tree-frog found in a bunch of roses at a Sheffield florist is a warning of the rising danger of invasive species found on imported plants, scientists have said. A growing number of ...

These "hitchhiking intruders" have included a tree frog that emerged from roses at a florist's shop in Sheffield and snakes discovered in ornamental olive trees shipped across mainland Europe.