In the entire 485-million-year fossil record of sea lilies, only one fossil had ever been found with the tube feet the animals catch their…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
What's new in
Life
Biology, animals, plants, and life beyond the human story.
A 5.02-metre female Greenland shark caught as bycatch in Greenlandic waters was estimated to be 392 years old, with a possible range of 272…
By Natural History · Aug 29, 2026
The rule that you should drink eight glasses of water a day has been repeated for decades, but when a physiologist went looking for its…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 29, 2026
Scientists long considered the brain one of the first organs to disappear after death
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Elephants don't simply walk away when one of their own dies
By Daniel Moran · Aug 27, 2026
Baby goats raised in the same herd start out bleating differently from one another, but researchers in the UK found that by five weeks old…
By Natural History · Aug 27, 2026
In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre climbed into a glacier cave in the Alps with no clock and no sunlight and stayed for two months…
By The Long View · Aug 27, 2026
In 1859 Thomas Austin turned 24 rabbits loose on his estate near Geelong so he could hunt on the weekend
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 27, 2026
Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise on the lawn of Plantation House on St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is still eating grass there at…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 27, 2026
Snakes have no eyelids at all, so they cannot blink even if they wanted to
By Natural History · Aug 27, 2026
Koalas have fingertip ridges, loops and whorls so similar to ours that University of Adelaide anthropologist Maciej Henneberg warned police…
By Natural History · Aug 27, 2026
Male Adélie penguins really do offer females a pebble as a mating gift, but the sweeter version of that story leaves out the rest of colony…
By Natural History · Aug 27, 2026