Photographic evidence of cannibalistic behavior; Mnemiopsis leidyi larvae (next to red arrows) within the auricles of an adult. Credit: Jamileh Javidpour/University of Southern Denmark In…
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Cape honey bee workers laying parasitic eggs on a queen cell. Credit: Professor Benjamin Oldroyd/University of Sydney Researchers discover a gene in honey bees that…
The research team analysed rock juggling in Asian small-clawed (Aonyx cinereus) and smooth-coated (Lutrogale perspicillata) otters found in zoo environments. Hunger is likely to be…
Artistic restoration of Deinonychus antirrhopus. Credit: Fred Wierum Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin…
The image was drawn from a complete, 3-dimensional fossil discovered in Madagascar. The unusually large mammal, named Adalatherium, is part of a group of mammals…
Life-like reconstruction of Adalatherium hui from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Credit: ©Denver Museum of Nature & Science/Andrey Atuchin International team of researchers, led by…
Two Spinosaurus hunt Onchopristis, a prehistoric sawfish, in the waters of the Kem Kem river system in what is now Morocco. Credit: Jason Treat, NG…
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, team of anthropologists and economists argue. Humans differ from other primates in…
Phylogenetic tree diagrams form the basis of understanding microbial evolution. Long branches between the two domains in some trees may reflect a period of very…
Predators abound on land, in the air and in water some 95 million years on the shores of northern Africa — as shown by the…
Visualizations of brain endocasts (blue) from the skulls of a dinosaur and a modern bird. Credit: Image courtesy of WitmerLab at Ohio University International team…
A mother fruit bat with her nursing pup. These fruit bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) from Ankarana in northern Madagascar are from a species that carries a…
A group of narwhals is called a blessing. Males (with tusks) and females are found in the Arctic seas. Credit: Carsten Egevang, Greenland Institute of…
The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Credit: Natural History Museum London. Griffith University scientists have led…
A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The…
Brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy”, and the “Dikika child” from Ethiopia pictured here in frontal and lateral…
The original complete skull (without mandible) of a 1,8 million years old Paranthropus robustus (SK-48 Swartkrans (26°00’S 27°45’E), Gauteng,), discovered in South Africa. Collection of…
(Click for full view.) A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor…
A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to a…
Biologist Kenneth M. Olsen tends rice in the Jeanette Goldfarb Plant Growth Facility at Washington University in St. Louis. Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University A new…