How citizen scientists are protecting ‘glass eels’
The Hudson River used to be among some of the most contaminated rivers in the United States. Following decades of...
biology
Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females
The idea that most biologically male members of a species are physically larger than the females goes back to Charles...
Cicadas pee in jet streams like bigger animals
Cicadas are known for emerging in the billions. These groups chatter so loudly that fiber optic cables can pick up...
New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand
The Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean basin on the planet. Scientists barely know just how many different organisms...
These extinct termites have been stuck in a mating position for 38 million years
It was a mosquito full of dinosaur blood and encased in amber that helped bring the fictional Jurassic Park to...
World’s oldest known fossilized forest discovered in England
Dinosaur fossils get most of the hype, but uncovering plant fossils is crucial for understanding the long-gone ecosystems of the...
Newly discovered deep-sea worm moves like a ‘living magic carpet’
The planet’s deep-sea worms survive and thrive in some pretty inhospitable places. Some are bioluminescent, glowing in regions too deep...
Take a look inside 13,000 animals–no scalpel required
If dissecting a frog in biology class had you begging to be sent home, new 3D scans of thousands of vertebrate...
Meet the new king of the ‘living fossils’
If you take a look at a horseshoe crab, you are essentially peering back in time millions of years. Animals...
Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time
When their kin aren’t attacking boats and porpoises or monitoring their large adult sons, some pods of orca whales are...
Watch: Three bald eagles could hatch any day now
All eyes are on two new avian internet celebrities and their cozy home in Southern California. Three bald eagle chicks...
Why we don’t have tails
It has been an enduring evolutionary mystery since the days of Charles Darwin: When did humans lose their tails? Apes–including...
