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We tend to think humans domesticated wolves, but one influential hypothesis proposes some Ice Age wolves began the process themselves by scavenging around human camps, where the bolder, less fearful individuals that tolerated people gained easier access to food and may have left more descendants than their wary siblings
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (1066+ words) Ancient DNA from a 14,300-year-old jawbone in Somerset and a Siberian wolf pup's last meal is reshaping how we understand dog domestication, pointing toward wolves that essentially tamed themselves around Ice Age human camps. By The Long View · Edited by…...
In 1948, Idaho wildlife officials packed 76 beavers into boxes and parachuted them into remote country — 75 survived the drops, after an older test beaver named Geronimo had repeatedly ridden the same system back to the ground to prove the boxes worked.
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (934+ words) Idaho’s 1948 parachute relocation moved 76 beavers with one fatality. The original account explains the tested boxes, Geronimo’s role and the limits of the survival figure. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit In 1948, Idaho wildlife officials…...
Birdwatching and mental health: what the research actually shows about the mood boost from birds
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (48+ words) Birdwatching has an unfair reputation as a gentle hobby for the retired, all binoculars and quiet patience. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Follow Science Blog on Google Add us as a preferred source to see…...
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands; by 2020, a gull-billed tern chick had hatched there, after only one Dutch breeding case had been recorded since 1958
1+ week, 3+ day ago (557+ words) Engineers in the Netherlands took fine mud choking a lifeless lake and used it to build five low islands and within a few years, rare birds started showing up. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit We are not ornithologists or ecologists,…...
Scottish lighthouse keepers filled in bird-observation schedules in the early 20th century, and several hundred of the surviving records — including one completed at Pentland Skerries Lighthouse in 1911 — are now held by the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club
1+ week, 3+ day ago (508+ words) By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit Why lighthouses, of all places? The answer is about timing and location, and it’s neat once you see it. Migrating birds often travel at night, following the coast....
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years — she resurfaced as a healthy adult, laid her own eggs, and now two of her offspring have been released into the same refuge
1+ week, 6+ day ago (517+ words) A conservation mystery solved itself when a vanished turtle returned after twelve years to reveal she'd thrived in the wild, bred successfully, and launched the next generation of her kind back into the refuge. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published…...
Emotional tears may have evolved not merely to express sadness, but to change the behaviour of the people around us — a distress signal originating in infancy that humans carried into adult social life to recruit attention, care and protection.
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (1418+ words) A new evolutionary account treats adult emotional tears as an infant-derived distress signal, while experiments show support effects that are real but strongly context-dependent. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit A line of moisture…...
Osprey nests on American power poles can weigh 200 pounds and set the poles they sit on alight, and one burning nest in May cut power to 3,500 Cape Cod homes while sixth-graders sat a standardized exam in the dark down the road
2+ week, 6+ day ago (188+ words) When a conservation success story literally catches fire, the utilities caught in the middle have to choose between power and wildlife. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The osprey is one of American conservation’s proudest comebacks, a fish-hunting raptor with a…...
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two summers, and the broadcasting turbines killed up to half as many bats, because a bat avoids air it cannot listen through
2+ week, 6+ day ago (347+ words) A simple tweak to wind turbines—making them audibly hostile to bats—cut fatalities roughly in half, suggesting a low-cost way to protect a species decimated by the renewable energy boom. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The experiment ran on the…...
If Finding Nemo were biologically accurate, Nemo's father would have turned into a female shortly after his mother died, because that is exactly what happens in real clownfish.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (254+ words) Sex change in clownfish isn't just biological fact—it's the plot twist Pixar missed entirely. Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit Which means that in the specific circumstance the film depicts, meaning the death of the breeding female in an established…...