1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (293+ words) For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific secret about bats and their nighttime feeding behavior " and we've only just spotted it....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (146+ words) There's more than one way a spider can spin its web....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (490+ words) Biology teachers around the world commonly introduce their students to the concept of 'trophic cascades' with an example from Yellowstone National Park in the United States....

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (246+ words) Evolution is all over the place in terms of lifespans, which range from the duration of a quick phone call to animals that may be older than recorded history....

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (629+ words) We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots. The forest, made up of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (788+ words) Birds do it, all right. And they're perfectly happy to fly solo. New research suggests that we should welcome birds to the sweaty club of animals that masturbate, which is way less exclusive than we thought. "Avian self-pleasure is usually…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (388+ words) The oceans are home to many of Earth's longest living creatures....

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (758+ words) Something strange is going on, deep below the ground beneath our feet. In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (645+ words) Museums are among the most expansive resources humans have created....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (575+ words) Remoras are pretty weird fish, but a new study shows they really have no boundaries when it comes to mooching off their manta ray hosts. These tropical suckerfish are best known for hitching a ride on sharks, whales, and even…...