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Century-old myth about the Tasmanian tiger may have been dangerously wrong
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (1232+ words) The Tasmanian tiger’s unusual skull suggests it snapped at smaller prey rather than overpowering livestock like a wolf. (CREDIT: Vera Weisbecker et al, Nature Communications) For generations, the thylacine carried the reputation of a wolf in stripes. Its dog-like head,…...
Reducing city light pollution could improve urban tree and plant growth
3+ week, 5+ day ago (982+ words) Artificial light at night fell in policy cities, alongside smaller shifts in spring green-up and autumn leaf timing. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) City lights do more than brighten streets. They can alter when trees sprout leaves, when autumn color…...
Scientists discover a new monkey species (Likweli) hidden in the Congo rainforest
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (968+ words) The Likweli monkey species lives in a small Congo forest range and faces growing threats from hunting and habitat loss. (CREDIT: Daniel Rosengren, Frankfurt Zoological Society Likweli is easy to miss, even for people who know central Africa’s forests well....
At 4,800-years-old, Methuselah is the world's oldest living tree - predates the Egyptian pyramids
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (884+ words) In California’s White Mountains, a bristlecone pine called Methuselah has held on for nearly 4,800 years, outlasting kingdoms, droughts, and whole eras of human history. Its battered trunk poses a basic question that still pulls scientists uphill: how does a tree…...
Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Could humans be next?
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1055+ words) Transparent jellyfish reveal how epithelial wounds switch between crawling, contraction, and group movement to heal fast. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) A jellyfish no wider than a dime can do something human skin cannot. When its surface is torn, the wound…...
Pterosaurs had far more diverse wing shapes than scientists previously knew
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1074+ words) Study finds published pterosaur wing reconstructions may miss much of the group’s true shape and flight diversity. (CREDIT: Mark P Witton) Pterosaurs ruled the air long before birds did, and over more than 100 million years they grew into everything from…...
Great apes show mental differences that do not follow human rules
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1051+ words) Great apes show stable cognitive differences, raising new questions about how ape intelligence is structured. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) That matters because much of comparative psychology has leaned on species-wide averages. If one species performs well…...
Robot fish helps explain how real fish learned to move on land
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1227+ words) Fish that flop across land may be using one of evolution’s oldest movement tricks, a simple gait shared across distant species. By copying it in a robot, researchers traced a common mechanical pattern that may echo how vertebrates first began…...
Fossil study finds dinosaur parents fed their young special diets
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1198+ words) A new fossil study suggests baby duck-billed dinosaurs ate softer, richer foods than adults, hinting at bird-like parenting. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Maiasaura dinosaur teeth carry a quiet clue: babies were not eating what adults ate. Tiny wear marks suggest…...
Long before chariots and empires, humans were already riding horses
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (983+ words) New research argues horse domestication began centuries before the DOM2 lineage spread across Eurasia. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Long before horses became the engine of empires, they were part of a messy experiment. That is the picture emerging from new research…...