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Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird
20+ hour, 9+ min ago (205+ words) Cranial scans reveal a brain with clever sensory adaptations 7:00 AM CDT on August 8, 2026 Dodo birds got a bad rap from the very start. When European sailors landed on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, they thought it looked foolish waddling…...
A New Toad Species Emerges from the La Brea Tar Pits
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (418+ words) A paleontological leap thanks to the unusual fossilization in crude oil 7:00 AM CDT on August 5, 2026 Frogs don’t preserve well in the fossil record. Their soft bodies and fragile bones are likely to just disintegrate. And so, fossils have provided only…...
Check Out Rare Images of Borneo’s “Ghosts of the Forest”
4+ day, 43+ min ago (263+ words) The Sunda clouded leopard proves elusive even when there are camera traps aimed at finding them 10:30 AM CDT on August 4, 2026 Their lifespans might be substantially longer, but because clouded leopards range widely, with individuals traveling as far as 22 miles between…...
Watch Orcas Play With (Read: Obliterate) Their Food
2+ week, 2+ day ago (395+ words) 7:00 AM CDT on July 23, 2026 As spectacular (and somewhat gruesome) underwater sights go, this one is right up there: a pair of orcas teaming up to ram a sharp-tail sunfish so forcefully that it explodes into tiny pieces. The only good…...
The Bird-Singing Contests That Are Fueling a Conservation Crisis
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1053+ words) Millions of Southeast Asian songbirds are trapped and trafficked every year 5:00 PM CDT on July 20, 2026 On a Sunday afternoon in April, the main minibus terminal in Sukabumi, Indonesia, looked sleepy from the outside. But in an open space round the…...
Monkeys Interpret Shapes Similarly to Humans
2+ week, 4+ day ago (317+ words) The continuum of geometric intuition from people to other primates 2:01 PM CDT on July 20, 2026 Among the many markers of human intelligence, we view ourselves as superior to other primates in geometric intuition. We readily distinguish regular geometric shapes with features…...
What Satellite Photos of Penguin Poop Tell Us About Earth’s Health
2+ week, 5+ day ago (379+ words) Climate change is painting with an Adélie penguin palette on Antarctic ice floes 11:00 AM CDT on July 20, 2026 Penguin poo, or guano, is a popular resource. Nests for penguin eggs are bowl-shaped depressions that the parents hollow into piles of guano…...
How Fruit Flies Tell What Time of Year It Is Without a Calendar
2+ week, 5+ day ago (143+ words) How do they know to take a break during the winter? 9:30 AM CDT on July 20, 2026 As a workhorse model organism for circadian research, fruit flies have an extremely well-studied biological clock. One of the clock genes, timeless, is integral to…...
What Became of the Chimps Who Revolutionized Our Understanding of Animal Behavior?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (328+ words) It’s a harrowing tale of deadly winters in Berlin captivity 11:00 AM CDT on July 17, 2026 “These chimpanzees are usually remembered for what they revealed about the mind,” said Virués-Ortega in a press release. “We wanted to ask the historical question textbooks…...
New, Orange-Lipped Monkey Discovered in Africa
3+ week, 2+ day ago (380+ words) It’s one of only a handful of new monkey species identified on the continent in the last 75 years 1:01 PM CDT on July 15, 2026 By now, you’d think we’d have a handle on all the other primates sharing the Earth with us....