In the remote depths of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, scientists have found something astonishing: the world’s largest known fish breeding colony. Spanning...
For decades, scientists have wrestled with a simple but profound puzzle: how did life’s genetic code first connect with proteins? Today, all living...
A vertebrate with one of the longest necks When paleontologists uncovered the fossils of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis in the Middle Triassic rocks of Guizhou,...
What’s the bare minimum needed for life? Scientists may have just found the answer in a tiny archaeon named Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. This...
Flightless birds show a deterministic reduction in keel size and sternum curvature as body mass increases. When birds give up flight, they don’t...
Imagine escaping to an island. You’d need to outsmart new predators, seize novel food sources, and cope without escape routes—perhaps only your brain...
Can animals evolve fast enough to keep up with the changing city? A new study on chipmunks and voles in Chicago digs deep—literally...
The surprising role of deep-sea osmoregulation in the marine carbon cycle When we think of ocean carbon cycling, our minds tend to drift...
For decades, the African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) has been hailed as a “living fossil,” a rare window into the deep evolutionary past of...