This image shows comparisons among Peking Man, Maba, Jinniushan, Dali and Harbin crania (from left to right). Credit: Kai Geng A near-perfectly preserved ancient human…
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This image shows adult coelacanth scales. Credit: Laurent Ballesta Coelacanths may live five times longer than researchers expected. Once thought to be extinct, lobe-finned coelacanths…
This image shows frog embryos in eggs. Credit: Nicolas Mathevon It’s well known that reptiles depend on temperature cues while in the egg to determine…
This illustration represents the overfitted brain hypothesis of dreaming, which claims that the sparse and hallucinatory quality of dreams is not a bug, but a…
Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal…
This is a representative image of cultured dissociated hippocampal neurons transiently expressing psychLight1 and psychLight2. Scale bar, 20 mm. Credit: Calvin Ly Psychedelic drugs have…
This image shows trails left by sponges as they crawl across the seafloor. Credit: AWI OFOBS team, PS101 The aquatic animal known as the sponge…
This image shows Murembo, a Great Tusker from Tsavo, Kenya’s largest protected area. Credit: John Marais A study reported in the journal Current Biology has…
This image shows a chimera human-monkey blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected…
This illustration shows an artist’s rendering of a pterosaur (Alanqa saharica). Credit: Davide Bonadonna Little is known about azhdarchid pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive…
The cryptocurrency market has been abuzz as Bitcoin gains popularity with investors, reaching an all-time high of over $60,000 apiece in March. In a commentary…
This image shows an octopus in active sleep. Credit: Sylvia L. S. Madeiros Octopuses are known to sleep and to change color while they do…
You’ve heard of animals that can lose and then regenerate a tail or limb. But scientists reporting in the journal Current Biology on March 8 have now…
This photo shows untreated wastewater near settlements in peri-urban Hyderabad. Credit: Dishaad Bundhoo The first global-scale assessment of the role ecosystems play in providing sanitation…
Dreams take us to what feels like a different reality. They also happen while we’re fast asleep. So, you might not expect that a person…
This photo shows a bat with a GPS tag on its back. Credit: Teague O’Mara Although scientists knew that some bats could reach heights of…
This photo shows a brown tree snake in a tree. Credit: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey Researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 11, 2021,…
Human white blood cells, known as leukocytes, swim using a newly described mechanism called molecular paddling, researchers report in the Biophysical Journal. This microswimming mechanism…
This photo shows a closeup of the wolf pup’s head, showing her teeth. Credit: Government of Yukon While water blasting at a wall of frozen…
This photo shows a woman handling tableware made from bamboos and food industry waste. Credit: Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Scientists have designed a set of “green”…