Twenty-one fossil footprints at GaJi10 on Kenya’s Lake Turkana record eight Paranthropus boisei crossing the same muddy shore 1.43 million…
Sep 1, 2026
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In the 1880s, Hawaii’s sugar industry introduced mongooses to the islands to kill rats in cane fields, but the effort largely failed…
Sep 1, 2026
Between April 2025 and March 2026, the Ocean Census network documented 1,121 marine species thought to be new to science—enough, the…
Sep 1, 2026
A biologist banded a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in December 1956, and the same bird, Wisdom, was still returning to the colony and…
Sep 1, 2026
The platypus hunts underwater with its eyes, ears and nostrils sealed, detecting the electrical fields produced by its prey’s muscles
Sep 1, 2026
In 2009, researchers in Japan placed five men individually inside a completely dark room and photographed them with a camera sensitive…
Sep 1, 2026
Off Hervey Bay, a dolphin named Maserati surfaced carrying a fish-filled bailer shell, then dropped it to pursue the escaping prey
Aug 31, 2026
A bowhead whale can live beyond 200 years and carries roughly a thousand times as many cells as a human, yet it is not highly cancer-prone
Aug 31, 2026
A fanged “vampire deer” thought gone from West Bengal for nearly 70 years has appeared on a camera trap
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years
Aug 31, 2026
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture
Aug 31, 2026
In 2007, researchers exposed dehydrated tardigrades—eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long—to the vacuum of space for ten days
Aug 31, 2026