1+ week, 3+ day ago   (670+ words) Inside the egg, a growing snake appears to obey a surprisingly simple rule. Can a snake be left-handed or right-handed? We’re not talking in the same way you or I would favor a hand, of course. But before a snake…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1079+ words) An overengineered hamster wheel has become a surprisingly revealing experiment in animal behavior. Every night, sometime around 10 p.m., Mollie clocks in. He does not lace up shoes or check the weather. He climbs into a running wheel in an apartment in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (805+ words) This is the first study of its kind. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), the world’s biggest fish, are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the hearts of anyone lucky enough to encounter them, making people deeply curious…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (49+ words) Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (836+ words) The dingo would have only been between 4 and 7 years old but clearly left a lasting impression. For nearly 1,000 years, the bones of a dingo lay hidden in a riverside midden on Barkindji Country, in western New South Wales, Australia. Then…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (674+ words) New chemical analysis reveals ancient Maya elites transported their prized dogs across hundreds of miles....

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (519+ words) Sonic imaging revealed millions of fish killed in epic feeding frenzy. The dramatic encounter, reported by researchers from MIT in the USA and Norway, marks the largest recorded instance of marine predation. Using advanced acoustic imaging technology, scientists watched as…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (464+ words) It's one of the most serious committments in the animal world. Your dating struggles are nowhere near what Salganea taiwanensis goes through. When two cockroaches from these species are ready to mate and settle down, they’ll engage in a bit…...

6+ mon, 10+ hour ago   (834+ words) Home → Science → Paleontology Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia. Over three million years ago, the wetlands of ancient Ethiopia were dominated by an ambush predator that dwarfed early human ancestors…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (718+ words) It's one of the weirdest things in the ant world. In the hidden chambers of Japanese forests, a quiet rebellion has been unfolding for decades. Scientists have now confirmed that one rare ant has broken almost every rule of ant…...