Category Science

Key Takeaways About Egg-Laying Monotremes: Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs and do not carry their young in a womb. They include species like the platypus and echidnas. Egg-laying monotremes…

Plants are constantly sending chemical messages into the air and soil around them. These invisible signals can summon pollinators, warn neighbors of herbivores, or repel attackers. But new research published…

The hidden processes that drive earthquakes cause a lot of commotion that we don’t ever see. Tectonic plates are always on the move, colliding and sliding into each other. In…

There are areas on Earth that are less understood than the surfaces of some worlds in our Solar System. Antarctica’s landscape beneath its immense ice sheet is one of them.…

There is a shark that can walk on land. That fact alone sounds like biology showing off. But even more impressively, the epaulette shark — a small, spotted reef dweller…

After you’ve come home from a long day at work or a trip to the grocery store, your dog may be the first thing to greet you as you walk…

The Canary Islands once had rats that were hard to miss. Members of the extinct genus Canariomys grew far larger than mainland grass rats, reaching the size of a small…

A previously hidden bar of iron has been found inside the Ring Nebula, one of the night sky’s most familiar stellar remnants. The structure, described for the first time in…

Seven naturally mummified cheetahs discovered in caves in northern Saudi Arabia, some dating back nearly 2,000 years, reveal that at least two cheetah subspecies once lived on the Arabian Peninsula.…

A remarkably complete fossil from northern Kenya is giving scientists their clearest picture yet of what one of humanity’s earliest ancestors actually looked like. An international research team has described…