Life
Island mammals don’t just slowly drift from their mainland relatives over millions of years
Aug 30, 2026
Life Science and Evolution
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Life
Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
Life
A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Humans are the only great ape known to have uniformly white sclera, making every shift of the eyes unusually easy to follow
Aug 30, 2026
Social Sciences
For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
Aug 28, 2026
Life
Koalas have fingertip ridges, loops and whorls so similar to ours that University of Adelaide anthropologist Maciej Henneberg warned police…
Aug 27, 2026
Life
In Kobe, a ten-year-old who hand-raised swallowtails trained his caterpillars to hate the smell of lavender, then watched the butterflies…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Life
UC Berkeley researchers reconstructing the ancestry of more than 500 living human genomes identified DNA from two unidentified human…
Aug 24, 2026
Life
Genomic research published in 2026 revealed that koalas suffered a severe population collapse beginning about 100,000 years ago—before…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 23, 2026
Life
South Korean men born in 1996 were estimated to be about 15.2 centimetres taller than men born there in 1896
Aug 22, 2026
Life
A worm frozen in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Life
A radio backpack lighter than a raindrop is now riding on monarch butterflies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Life
For decades, paleontologists argued that a small tyrannosaur found in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation was merely a young T. rex
Aug 20, 2026
Life
When a human and a dog gaze into each other's eyes, both of them release oxytocin
By Brendan Brown · Aug 19, 2026