Latest Biology Stories
‘Snowball Earth’ was crushing and cold. What animals could survive it?
Pink Iguana hatchlings spotted for the first time on the Galápagos in decades
It’s easier than ever to make DNA from scratch—but what are the risks?
A primitive part of the zebrafish brain helps them find their way home
Why do humans talk? Tree-dwelling orangutans might hold the answer.
Millions of years ago, marine reptiles may have used Nevada as a birthing ground
Your cat is probably more attached to you than you think
What’s in a genome? The quest to decipher human difference
Foraging in trees might have pushed human ancestors to walk on two feet
Scientists just found out female snakes have two clitorises
Giant wombats the size of small cars once roamed Australia
Newly discovered fossils give a whole new meaning to jumbo shrimp
These intricate ‘living’ paintings are teeming with microscopic organisms
How breeding dogs for certain traits may have altered their brains
Oldest DNA ever sampled paints a lush portrait of a lost Arctic world
The last Tasmanian tiger’s remains were finally found—in a cupboard
To save coral reefs, color the larvae
The tortoise, the myth, the legend: Jonathan turns 190
This dinosaur dove like a duck
Plastic microfibers in the Mediterranean Sea are keeping bacteria afloat
A key to lizard evolution was buried in a museum cupboard for 70 years
The newest member of the T. rex family has piercing eyes
Meet the extinct sea cow that cultivated Pacific kelp forests
Eyeless army ants chomped their way through Europe millions of years ago
Oldest evidence of digested plants in a roughly 575-million-year-old creature’s gut
These pleasantly plump salamanders dominated the Cretaceous period
Gigantic fossils hint at super-sized 7,000-pound sea turtle
This 18-foot python’s last meal was a whole alligator
Kids learn faster than adults. This neurotransmitter could explain why.
Monkeys with close friends have friendlier gut bacteria
The slow, but promising progress of electrode therapy for paralysis
Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz
The science behind our circadian rhythms, and why time changes mess them up
Sex, not violence, could’ve sealed the fate of the Neanderthals
Meta’s AI could shake up how we study protein structures
Eurasian jays show masterful intelligence in human psychology test
Hellbender salamanders may look scary, but the real fright is extinction
A Scottish fossil is helping scientists fill the gaps in the lizard family tree
Argonaut octopuses are enigmatic—down to their self-made ‘shells’
The rare case of a lioness with a mane
Multiple species of Rhododendron thrive by taking turns to bloom
The first honeybee vaccine could protect the entire hive, starting with the queen
9 stunning pictures of the microscopic realm
An insect-eating fungus could help us fight viruses—and now we know how to grow it
The Brilliant 10: The top up-and-coming minds in science
6 surprising ways animals are adapting to a human-dominated world
Geologists are searching for when the Earth took its first breath
You can’t control your height, but 12,000 genetic variants probably do
Our long childhoods could be linked to food-gathering skills
Billions of years ago, Mars may have been bustling with climate-changing microbes
Watch what can happen when killer whales tangle with great white sharks
How researchers leveled up worm silk to be tougher than a spider’s
One secret to excellent memory in old age? Giant neurons.
The key to tastier beer might be mutant yeast—with notes of banana
This pterosaur ancestor was a tiny, flightless dog-like dinosaur
Here’s how life on Earth might have formed out of thin air and water
Below Madagascar, cave divers surface secrets of the past
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced Neanderthal genome
Florida’s aquatic animals prepare early for storms like Hurricane Ian
Termites work through wood faster when it’s hotter out
2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners include ducks in a row, constipated scorpions, ice cream, and more
These fungi demand more pumpkin in their pumpkin spice lattes
Why you want to barf when you see something gross
How do you preserve a famous person’s body?
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