Most humpback whale populations have rebounded from near-extinction over the past sixty years, but the Arabian Sea population
By Natural History · Aug 24, 2026
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A survey of 491 primate species found same-sex sexual behaviour was most likely in long-lived animals facing food scarcity, predation…
By Natural History · Aug 24, 2026
A single aspen colony in Utah called Pando covers 43 hectares as roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root system, making…
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
UC Berkeley researchers reconstructing the ancestry of more than 500 living human genomes identified DNA from two unidentified human…
By Lab Report · Aug 24, 2026
The mantis shrimp is routinely described as seeing millions more colours than humans, but a 2014 Science study found something stranger
By Natural History · Aug 23, 2026
An octopus has three hearts, but during jet-propelled swimming its main systemic heart can briefly stop—the pressure inside its mantle…
By Natural History · Aug 23, 2026
A kangaroo hopping at high speed can use dramatically less energy than a four-legged mammal of the same size running at the same pace
By Natural History · Aug 23, 2026
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
A marine worm with no mouth and no gut makes its own enzyme for digesting the bioplastic its skin bacteria build up, and the same kind of…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 23, 2026
Wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil select heavy stones, sometimes weighing more than a kilogram, carry them to anvils and use them to…
By Natural History · Aug 23, 2026
A fragment of fossil thigh bone was the only piece carrying this specimen's collection number, and losing it hid where the animal came from…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 22, 2026
South Korean men born in 1996 were estimated to be about 15.2 centimetres taller than men born there in 1896
By Lab Report · Aug 22, 2026