4+ week, 2+ 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…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (427+ words) The bird-fish hybrid could one day be used to study aquatic animals underwater and then fly back to the base with data....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1124+ words) The technology may aid conservation, but de-extinction remains a distant promise. Chicks were never supposed to hatch from plastic. Yet inside the Dallas laboratories of Colossal Biosciences, chicken embryos grew in transparent, 3D-printed vessels instead of natural eggshells. They shifted,…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (484+ words) New robot uses animal-inspired motion to help you feel less stressed. Their goal: to see if a machine can offer the same psychological relief as a living, breathing companion. Their results suggest that robots might indeed have a place in…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (532+ words) New research reveals that elephant trunk whiskers are unlike any other animal's, and could inspire a new generation of robots. The roughly 1,000 whiskers covering an elephant’s trunk turn out to be unlike any other known mammalian hair, driven by evolution…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (561+ words) Scientists capture the first moments of a tiny marsupial’s fight to reach the pouch For an animal smaller than a paper clip, the first journey of a newborn dunnart is astonishing. Moments after birth, each baby—no heavier than a…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (963+ words) Ancient DNA from cave mummies offers a genetic roadmap for rewilding Saudi Arabia's deserts. In the dry, sun-baked expanse of northern Saudi Arabia, there are holes in the earth that lead to another world. For millennia, these underground caverns have…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (451+ words) New tools are helping park rangers detect and respond to poaching in real time. As anti-poaching techniques have improved over the years, poachers have increasingly used technology to evade detection by patrols and park rangers. Now, conservationists are rising to…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago   (458+ words) A new underwater camera exposes the long-hidden sounds fish make on bustling coral reefs. Fish were discovered to make sounds more than 2,000 years ago, but they have gone largely unheard by humans. While a typical, bustling coral reef may be…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (558+ words) Cuddly koalas are closely related to one of the deadliest mammals ever. Australian folklore warns of the “drop bear,” a legendary and savage version of the koala said to leap from trees onto unsuspecting tourists. Now, scientists have found that…...