Scientists have found a Heliconius butterfly that barely seems to age, living several times longer than its close relatives and showing…
Jul 11, 2026
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Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only animal known to do so, forming the flat-sided pellets inside the last stretch of their…
Jul 11, 2026
Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in distinct dialects passed down through generations, and pods that never interbreed can…
Jul 11, 2026
Octopuses in a Dartmouth lab learned to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them
Jul 11, 2026
The 507-year-old “Ming” clam was the oldest reliably aged individual non-colonial animal known
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Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, is one organism made of roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root system across…
Jul 10, 2026
The story of edible 3,000-year-old tomb honey is poorly documented, but honey really does resist spoilage
By Brendan Brown · Jul 10, 2026
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, which means some of the ones cruising the North Atlantic today were already swimming when…
Jul 9, 2026
The oldest known piece of Earth is a crystal barely wider than a hair, found in the hills of Western Australia
By Brendan Brown · Jul 9, 2026
Microneedles Mimic a Carnivorous Plant to Heal Diabetic Wounds
By ScienceBlog.com · Jun 26, 2026
Why Plants, Fungi and Toads All Learned to Make the Same Mind-Altering Molecules
By ScienceBlog.com · Jun 25, 2026
A Dog's Shortening Front Stride Can Signal Dementia Before the Memory Goes
By ScienceBlog.com · Jun 25, 2026