2+ hour, 31+ min ago   (282+ words) When fruit disappears, bearded capuchins switch from foraging to hunting, targeting everything from lizards and rodents to snakes, iguanas, and young birds....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (930+ words) Before insects ruled the skies and reshaped life on land, some of their ancestors may have paddled through shallow coastal water on rows of abdominal limbs. A newly identified species from western Texas now offers a rare view of that…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (165+ words) A newly identified New Guinea groundsnake named for Slash is genetically distinct from its relatives and lives in threatened forest habitat....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (901+ words) A decades-old experiment in Victoria’s mountain ash forests is challenging assumptions about the trade-offs between timber production and conservation. Should a forest remain untouched, or should some trees be harvested to sustain nearby communities and economies? Australians have debated these…...

1+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (585+ words) CT scans reveal new clues to how the dodo sensed its environment and challenge its reputation as an unintelligent bird. For centuries, one of the world’s only two complete dodo skulls has been preserved in Copenhagen. Now, that rare specimen…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (663+ words) ASU researchers found that genetics alone cannot explain the origins of eusociality. Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (824+ words) A nearly complete fossil shows that one early dog combined climbing ability with a body unlike those of modern running canids. For more than 30 years, a fossil roughly 30 million years old remained sealed inside rock in an Oregon museum collection....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (817+ words) Researchers found that a narrow range of ocean conditions maximized carbon burial for millions of years at a time. For more than 100 million years, Earth has remained within a temperature range suitable for life, as though the planet were regulated…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (998+ words) New DNA analysis and a reconstructed family tree could help protect it from poaching. On a museum shelf in London, a pangolin specimen collected nearly 190 years ago held genetic evidence that could change how conservationists track one of the world’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (844+ words) “It’s been a lot of work but also really exciting to see,” said Jaret Daniels, curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “We’ve had good success with plant establishment, and we’ve seen monarchs using the plants already…...