An unknown human lineage interbred with our ancestors in Africa more than 50,000 years ago
By Natural History · Sep 1, 2026
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Twenty-one fossil footprints at GaJi10 on Kenya’s Lake Turkana record eight Paranthropus boisei crossing the same muddy shore 1.43 million…
By Lab Report · Sep 1, 2026
In the 1880s, Hawaii’s sugar industry introduced mongooses to the islands to kill rats in cane fields, but the effort largely failed…
By Natural History · Sep 1, 2026
Between April 2025 and March 2026, the Ocean Census network documented 1,121 marine species thought to be new to science—enough, the…
By Natural History · Sep 1, 2026
A biologist banded a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in December 1956, and the same bird, Wisdom, was still returning to the colony and…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026
The platypus hunts underwater with its eyes, ears and nostrils sealed, detecting the electrical fields produced by its prey’s muscles
By Natural History · Sep 1, 2026
In 2009, researchers in Japan placed five men individually inside a completely dark room and photographed them with a camera sensitive…
By The Long View · Sep 1, 2026
Off Hervey Bay, a dolphin named Maserati surfaced carrying a fish-filled bailer shell, then dropped it to pursue the escaping prey
By Natural History · Aug 31, 2026
A bowhead whale can live beyond 200 years and carries roughly a thousand times as many cells as a human, yet it is not highly cancer-prone
By Natural History · Aug 31, 2026
A fanged “vampire deer” thought gone from West Bengal for nearly 70 years has appeared on a camera trap
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 31, 2026
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture
By Lab Report · Aug 31, 2026