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…
Aug 29, 2026
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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
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…
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…
Aug 27, 2026
In 1859 Thomas Austin turned 24 rabbits loose on his estate near Geelong so he could hunt on the weekend
Aug 27, 2026
Snakes have no eyelids at all, so they cannot blink even if they wanted to
Aug 27, 2026
Koalas have fingertip ridges, loops and whorls so similar to ours that University of Adelaide anthropologist Maciej Henneberg warned police…
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…
Aug 27, 2026
In July 2025, scientists revealed that the Chinese submersible Fendouzhe had discovered thousands of tubeworms and clams thriving 9,533…
Aug 26, 2026
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