Category Science

Grab your lawn chair, sleeping bag, and hot cup of cocoa because the Leonid meteor shower, one of the most famous and unpredictable sky shows, will peak in the early…

The cameras of the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Vertebrates (LACEV) at the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences captured an unexpected find: a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg, astonishingly well…

Chameleons see the world in a way no other animal can, with eyes that move independently yet lock in perfect sync when they focus. A new study in Scientific Reports…

Whenever people think of Neanderthals, they probably picture a caveman in dire need of a haircut. However, there’s more to the quintessential Neanderthal look, especially in their faces. Features like…

The seemingly sterile vacuum of space isn’t much “cleaner” than Earth, with cosmic dust constantly raining down and coating our planet’s surface. Now, researchers have found a way to trace…

When you find yourself at the emergency room, one of the first things often asked is how much pain you are in. Although we may associate the severity level of…

Scientists looking for new ways to treat brain disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s have found an unlikely advantage in camels, llamas, and alpacas (known as camelids) — animals whose immune…

In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young surveyor named William Smith noticed a surprising pattern: from one location to the next, rock layers…

Off the coast of Tahiti, small fish have developed a big adaptation to prevent becoming prey. Divers photographed a small, silver, half-dollar-shaped fish, known as a Myers’ Pomfret, with the…

Forget the tadpoles — in Tanzania’s mountain forests, three newly discovered toads enter the world ready to hop. A new study, published in Vertebrate Zoology, introduces toad species that give…