Mar 2021
A roughly 10,000-year-old bone found in southern Alaska is among the Americas’ oldest dog fossils
An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
Dec 2021
The now-extinct animals were still considerably larger than their modern kin
Ancient giant orangutans evolved smaller bodies surprisingly slowly
Jan 2024
Just 21 of more than 400 teeth had fractures, suggesting early primates had soft-food diets
Ancient primates' unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit
Jul 2020
Features of a fossil from what’s now Libya tie the animal closely to its extant American kin
An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
Oct 2019
An extra digit, a pseudothumb, may help the primates grip objects
Aye-ayes just got weirder with the discovery of a tiny, sixth ‘finger’
Apr 2019
The engineered stands could help design more sturdy materials
Bacteria can be coaxed into making the toughest kind of spider silk
May 2019
The birds seem to pick up on and share negative emotions, but not positive ones.
Bad moods could be contagious among ravens
Oct 2020
The world’s largest animal goes from nighttime to daytime crooning before heading south
Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
Aug 2019
Differences in how social insect groups perform may be, in part, chalked up to leadership
Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies
Sep 2019
Neonicotinoid insecticides have previously been implicated in declining bee populations
Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays