Gray wolves take down a horse on the mammoth-steppe habitat of Beringia during the late Pleistocene (around 25,000 years ago). Credit: Julius Csotonyi Gray wolves…
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Ecological reconstruction of Pelretes vivificus vesting angiosperm flowers in the Burmese amber forest (~99 Ma). Credit: Artwork by Mr. Jie Sun An amber fossil of…
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Credit: M. Ponce de León and…
Carolina hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) feeding from white Mimulus mutant in flight chamber. Credit: Byers and Bradshaw, 2021 Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths…
Researchers found that the cataclysmic asteroid impact that resulted in the destruction of nearly 75% of all terrestrial life on Earth drastically restructured tropical forests,…
Bottom-dwelling fish such as Atlantic cod are often found near structures such as shipwrecks. Credit: NOAA Study suggests reducing fishing and addressing environmental changes would…
Credit: UCR Trilobites Had a Leg Up on Breathing A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures.…
Behold, the gar’s brain. In this microscope image, the brain’s left hemisphere fluoresces green and the right glows magenta. Yet, at the bottom of the…
A male gorilla chest beating. Credit: Jordi Galbany / Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund The chest beats given by adult male gorillas reliably indicate their body…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…
Cyanobacteria on a water surface. Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think…
About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatan, plunging the Earth into darkness. The impact transformed tropical rainforests,…
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter…
A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can…
The giant mihirung Dromornis stirtoni, by artist Peter Trusler. Credit: Peter Trusler The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up to 600kg and…
A highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant was unknowingly spreading for months in the United States by October 2020, according to a new study from researchers with…
A Scolopendra morsitans centipede. Credit: © Eivind Undheim Venom expert Dr. Ronald Jenner from the Natural History Museum together with his colleague Dr. Eivind Undheim,…
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…
A microscope image of the intertidal flatworm Procerodes littoralis. Credit: Katharine Clayton, University of Plymouth A tiny flatworm found commonly on the coasts of western…
An illustration of Tiktaalik, an ancient species among one of the first to transition to land. A new study reveals clues how the first animals…