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Scientists uncovered a bizarre crocodile cousin from 215 million years ago that started life walking on all fours, then changed its entire…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Deep beneath Central Texas, a caver put his head beneath an underground stream and found Ice Age fossils everywhere
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Researchers analysing 469 rumbles from wild African elephants in Kenya found that calls contained name-like information identifying their…
By Natural History · Sep 6, 2026
In 2006, University of Washington biologist John Marzluff wore a caveman mask while trapping and banding seven Seattle crows
By Natural History · Sep 6, 2026
Black vultures nested a metre or two from an incubating Chaco eagle on an abandoned Argentine hunting tower, and the eagle's egg was gone…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 6, 2026
Thirty-five dogs watched forty second videos of three human faces, one of them their own owner's, and blinked at a higher rate when the…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 6, 2026
Neanderthals did not disappear simply because the climate turned cold or Homo sapiens defeated them—a 2026 Université de Montréal-led…
By Natural History · Sep 5, 2026
Vesper bats—a family of more than 500 species—appear to carry two distinct sets of antibody heavy-chain genes, an immune arrangement never…
By Lab Report · Sep 5, 2026
A female red kangaroo can support three offspring simultaneously
By Natural History · Sep 5, 2026
In 1932, Australia sent soldiers armed with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus tearing through wheat farms
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
Farmers in Thailand were losing crops to hungry elephants, so they began replacing sugar cane and bananas with coffee
By Daniel Moran · Sep 4, 2026