Crows can memorise the face of a person who wronged them, hold the grudge for as long as 17 years, and teach it to their own chicks and…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 26, 2026
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Researchers at the University of St Andrews spent decades filming wild New Caledonian crows and documented individuals sculpting forked…
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
A single teaspoon of soil from a healthy forest floor contains more living organisms
By Natural History · Aug 26, 2026
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
The Greenland shark may live for nearly four centuries by doing almost everything slowly
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Mammal ancestors were long assumed to lay eggs, until a growth ring inside the thigh bone of a 236-million-year-old Argentine cynodont put…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026
Worker bees filtered 95 percent of a pesticide out of the food they stored on day two and only 86 percent by day ten, and in the same…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly…
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Dog owners were 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes than non-owners in a major analysis, according to the American Heart…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Twenty years of feeding records found wild Bornean orangutans repeatedly combining plants with documented medicinal properties more often…
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Researchers attached an artificial muscle to a real seal whisker and found why seals can hunt in complete darkness
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Researchers watched roughly 200 juvenile arapaima surface for air in bursts of up to 100 fish at once, each collective breath lasting less…
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026