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Pointy cactus needles

Why Your Bee Sting and a Pencil Share the Same Shape

chocolate bars

Desert Cactus Fungi Could Help Save Chocolate from Drought

Starving Gray Whales Are Swimming Into San Francisco Bay, and Nearly One in Five Dies There

Chimpanzee Civil War Rewrites What We Know About Violence

A 289-million-year-old Captorhinus reptile was found preserved in its death pose inside a cave system. Oil seepages, hyper-mineralized water, and fine clays created ideal conditions for mummification — protecting not just bone, but soft tissues including skin, cartilage, and protein remnants.

Fossil Explains Why You Can Breathe the Way You Do

Three seahorse species classified as vulnerable by the IUCN are being caught as bycatch in bottom trawling operations, a new global inventory from University of British Columbia researchers has found.

More Than 3,000 Fish Species Are Being Caught by Bottom Trawlers, Many of Them Unknown to Science

Females of the gall midge Dasineura heterosmilacicola are attracted to flowers of Smilax insularis by the scented chemical dihydroedulan I, which is emitted by both male and female (pictured) flowers. However, the insects lay eggs mostly into male flowers.

Rare Scent Keeps a Fragile Partnership from Falling Apart

Scientists looking for sources that generated life on Earth are considering hydrothermal vents of different types, from vents found in the deep sea to others created by meteor impacts.

The Asteroids That Ended the Dinosaurs May Also Have Helped Start Life

Rice University Ph.D. student Chris Wright holds the implant, which uses cells to manufacture pharmaceutical drugs beneath the skin

A Tiny Implant That Makes Your Medicines Could Replace Daily Drug Regimens

Ancient Fish Used Their Lungs to Hear Underwater

TOAD, SONORAN DESERT (Bufo alvarius)

Single Breath of Psychedelic Frog Molecule Lifted Depression in More Than Half of Patients Who Had Run Out of Options

New research finds the snow fly (Chionea alexandriana) counteracts subzero temperature by creating bursts of body heat and producing antifreeze proteins.

The Snow Fly Runs on Antifreeze and Generates Its Own Heat. Insects Were Not Supposed to Do This.

The Polar Bear’s Double Life as an Arctic Conservation Architect

The Lizard That Lost Its Name for 80 Years Has Finally Got It Back

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