Category Science

More than three million years ago, Lucy — the famously complete fossil of an early human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 — moved through a landscape of wetlands, rivers,…

Holding your breath underwater for a minute or two may seem impressive, but that doesn’t come close to bumblebee queens’ ability to survive underwater for a whole week. This extraordinary…

Urban environments are one big playground, at least for non-human urban dwellers like raccoons. Cities provide a unique stage, allowing animals to grow with challenges and then be rewarded with…

Long before the Inca Empire rose to power, brightly colored parrots were carried across the Andes Mountains — from the Amazon rainforest to Peru’s arid Pacific coast. Archaeologists have discovered…

As our ancient human ancestors were evolving and branching out across Eurasia and into the Americas, so too were the ancestors of a common plant virus genus. Using genome sequencing,…

Comet 3I/ATLAS is making headlines again, this time for its chemistry. New observations show that the interstellar visitor contains an unusually large amount of methanol, a molecule that rarely appears…

Finless porpoises have generally been regarded as loners. They are usually seen alone or in simple pairs, most often a mother swimming with her calf, leading researchers to assume the…

Just as we might not recover from falling out of a swing in our twenties or thirties as quickly as we might’ve bounced back as children, the amount of time…

Anyone who has ever dived into the ocean has seen the tiny white flecks drifting through the water like snow. This so-called marine snow is made of sinking debris, fragments…

Two marsupial species that were thought to be long gone from this planet have miraculously been found alive and well. Both species dwell in the rainforests of the Vogelkop Peninsula…