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
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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…
Sep 6, 2026
In 2006, University of Washington biologist John Marzluff wore a caveman mask while trapping and banding seven Seattle crows
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…
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…
Sep 6, 2026
Neanderthals did not disappear simply because the climate turned cold or Homo sapiens defeated them—a 2026 Université de Montréal-led…
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…
Sep 5, 2026
A female red kangaroo can support three offspring simultaneously
Sep 5, 2026
In 1932, Australia sent soldiers armed with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus tearing through wheat farms
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
Scientists looked inside a rock pellet smaller than a grain of rice and found a 445-million-year-old world preserved within it
By Daniel Moran · Sep 4, 2026