Category Science

A frog once sold online for $1,400. It wasn’t an isolated sale. Over two decades, U.S.-based online classifieds listed thousands of amphibians spanning more than 300 species. Most move through…

For thousands of years, communities living along the rivers and wetlands of what is now Belgium, the Netherlands, and nearby parts of Germany resisted a transformation that was sweeping across…

A recent approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the playing field for a fairly unknown, non-invasive therapy aimed at tackling one of the most aggressive…

A trading vessel that sank in the 14th century lay hidden near the eastern entrance to the Singapore Strait for centuries. When archaeologists excavated the site between 2016 and 2019,…

When rival Yellow-naped Amazon parrots confront one another in the treetops of Costa Rica, their exchange can erupt into a rapid, layered volley of sound. The calls overlap, accelerate, and…

Mars may look frozen and silent today, but near Pavonis Mons — a volcano that rises nearly nine miles above the Martian surface — researchers have uncovered evidence that a…

When you think of elephants, the first thing that comes to mind is likely not their whiskers. But these whiskers play a major role in the dexterity of an elephant’s…

Once a year, a waterfall at Yosemite National Park ignites into a can’t-miss natural phenomenon — the Firefall. For a few minutes on select evenings in mid to late February,…

On the desert coast of southern Peru, wealth didn’t glitter. It grew in cornfields. Hundreds of years before the Inca Empire rose to power, the Chincha Kingdom thrived in one…

Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, galaxies were expected to be small, chaotic, and still forming stars. Instead, astronomers have found enormous, mature-looking systems that appear to have…