For decades, the standard claim was that bacteria in your body outnumbered your own cells ten to one
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
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More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
The most expensive wool on Earth doesn't come from a farm, but from a wild Andean animal called the vicuña, hunted to a few thousand by the…
By Natural History · Aug 20, 2026
For decades, paleontologists argued that a small tyrannosaur found in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation was merely a young T. rex
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Crocodiles still live wild in the middle of the Sahara desert, trapped there since the desert itself used to be green
By Natural History · Aug 20, 2026
Bulls aren't enraged by red — they're red-green colour blind, and it's the movement of the cape that triggers the charge
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
When a human and a dog gaze into each other's eyes, both of them release oxytocin
By Brendan Brown · Aug 19, 2026
In the spring of 2022, a Cornell lab technician who'd been parking for free near an Ithaca cemetery and cutting through it on her walk to…
By Natural History · Aug 19, 2026
Somewhere between 18 and 35 percent of people sneeze when they step into bright sunlight, but nobody has established how light hitting the…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
In 1968, a researcher built a mouse paradise
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Chimpanzees in West Africa have been seen carrying their dead for weeks, grooming the body, chasing away flies, and sitting close to the…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
In a Duke University experiment, spotted hyenas were given a rope-pulling task requiring two animals to coordinate without prior training
By Natural History · Aug 18, 2026