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Cicadas stuck to a 1930 forest map, ignoring regrown Iowa woodland today
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026
Ancient fossils suggest human ancestry split far earlier than scientists believed
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Humpback whales synchronize their songs to every phase of their dives
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Girl and father unearth largest ichthyosaur jaw bone ever found
By Lab Report · Sep 8, 2026
Sponge larvae shut down most of their genes when sunset is delayed
By Lab Report · Sep 8, 2026
Young pygmy raccoons invented a never-before-seen game on a Mexican beach
By Natural History · Sep 8, 2026
Four hippos brought to Colombia in 1981 have multiplied into nearly 200 animals roaming the Magdalena River basin
By Daniel Moran · Sep 7, 2026
Two pages of the York Gospels and a third bound in with it later carry the DNA of the virus that causes sheeppox, and the team that found…
By Lab Report · Sep 7, 2026
Researchers put bright patterned sleeves on 94 hunting cats, and the birds they brought home fell by nearly two-thirds
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026
A poplar tilted onto its side laid a band of pulling wood along the top of the bend to haul itself upright, then, once the experimenters…
By Natural History · Sep 7, 2026
Before 2018, sulphur-crested cockatoos had been reported opening bins in just three Sydney suburbs
By Natural History · Sep 6, 2026