Cicadas stuck to a 1930 forest map, ignoring regrown Iowa woodland today
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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
Sep 8, 2026
Sponge larvae shut down most of their genes when sunset is delayed
Sep 8, 2026
Young pygmy raccoons invented a never-before-seen game on a Mexican beach
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…
Sep 7, 2026
Researchers put bright patterned sleeves on 94 hunting cats, and the birds they brought home fell by nearly two-thirds
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…
Sep 7, 2026
Before 2018, sulphur-crested cockatoos had been reported opening bins in just three Sydney suburbs
Sep 6, 2026
At Denver Zoo, one-year-old Huon tree kangaroo Nane
Sep 6, 2026