Bowhead whales can live past 200 years, and a 2025 study found unusually efficient repair of certain DNA lesions
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
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Crocodiles can lose limbs in territorial fights and still heal in bacteria-rich water with surprisingly little infection
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
The 52-hertz whale has an unusual call, but scientists cannot tell whether it is alone or unanswered
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Methuselah is among the oldest confirmed living non-clonal trees, with rings dating to roughly 2833 BC
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
In 1938, a South African fisherman hauled up a fish that scientists believed had been extinct for 65 million years
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 12, 2026
Sharks have been swimming Earth's oceans for over 400 million years, which makes them older than trees, older than the dinosaurs, and…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 12, 2026
The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 to 5 days, and the stem cells at the base of each intestinal crypt divide faster than…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 12, 2026
The first primates may not have evolved in warm tropical forests at all
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 12, 2026
Scientists have found a Heliconius butterfly that barely seems to age, living several times longer than its close relatives and showing…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 11, 2026
Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only animal known to do so, forming the flat-sided pellets inside the last stretch of their…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 11, 2026
Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in distinct dialects passed down through generations, and pods that never interbreed can…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 11, 2026