Most people think a goldfish forgets everything within seconds, which helps make the little bowl seem humane — but that is a myth
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
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It walked on two legs, wore a beak, and looked just like a small dinosaur
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Greenland sharks swim so slowly that most people could walk faster than them, may not reach sexual maturity until around 150—and the oldest…
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 21, 2026
In 1856, workers quarrying limestone in Germany's Neander Valley pulled 16 bone fragments from a cave they were about to blow up, tossed…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
It looked like a cross between a pig and a turtle, it had two tusks and a horny beak and no other teeth, it was hardly anyone's idea of a…
By Brendan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
In a pitch-black cave on the border of Greece and Albania, more than 100,000 spiders share a single web the size of half a tennis court
By Brendan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
Spinach contains oxalate, which can contribute to calcium-oxalate kidney stones in susceptible people
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 18, 2026
Around 70 years after they became absent, fourteen wolves rode into Yellowstone in crates in 1995 and ecologists are still fighting over…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
In 2011, Peruvian geologist Andrés Ruzo followed his grandfather's story into the Amazon and confirmed a 6.4-kilometre stretch of river…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Most people assume a dog explores the world by sight, as we do, yet it lives in a world built almost wholly of smell, sniffed in stereo…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Plants do not synthesise vitamin B12; reliable dietary B12 originates with bacteria and archaea
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his handmade microscope, saw thousands of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026