Nine museum specimens catalogued as ambergris had all passed the traditional hot needle test, and chemical profiling then found no ambrein…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
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Eight of ten blue-throated macaws slid a feeder door upward after watching another macaw do it, and not one of the five tested without a…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
In 1959, and again in 1971, South Korea imported American bullfrogs to be raised as food, but the business never took off
By Natural History · Sep 4, 2026
Volunteers were paid about $19,000 each to spend 60 days in strict bed rest without once sitting up
By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026
Scottish lighthouse keepers filled in bird-observation schedules in the early 20th century, and several hundred of the surviving records
By Natural History · Sep 3, 2026
On Christmas Day in 1900, 27 people went out to count birds instead of shooting them
By Natural History · Sep 3, 2026
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026
A four-kilogram miniature dachshund survived 529 days alone on Kangaroo Island
By Daniel Moran · Sep 2, 2026
Alligator blood can inhibit HIV and kill drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory tests
By Daniel Moran · Sep 2, 2026
An Iguanodon shinbone carries the first bone reaction to a skin ulcer yet reported in a dinosaur
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026
To count the tigers hiding in India's forests, researchers set out tens of thousands of hidden cameras and waited, and out of nearly 35…
By Kiran Journals · Sep 2, 2026
Greenland sharks can live so long that the oldest may have been swimming when the First Fleet reached Australia
By Natural History · Sep 2, 2026