2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (682+ words) Thousands of meters below the ocean surface, researchers recorded squid they rarely get to see. The unusual footage is revealing a mysterious side of deep-sea life that few have ever witnessed. A rare bigfin squid has been recorded nearly 3,300 meters…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (657+ words) For more than 300 million years, a piece of Earth’s ancient history remained hidden beneath the surface. A new discovery inside a U.S. cave is now revealing the sharks that once lived in a vanished world. Deep beneath Kentucky, scientists have uncovered…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (537+ words) No bones. No shells. Just chemical traces in ancient rocks that strengthen the case for Earth’s earliest sponges. In ancient rocks from Oman, western India and Siberia, researchers have identified what appear to be two unusual organic molecules with 31 carbon…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (529+ words) When a cage mate went unconscious, mice followed an unexpected sequence that appeared to help it wake sooner. That odd observation has now turned into a formal study. Zhang and his colleagues published their findings in the journal Science, documenting…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (549+ words) A sonar scan spotted what looked like a shipwreck. Nearly 6,200 feet down, the seafloor held something stranger. During the initial scan, it appeared that the sonar reading resembled an object that could be a vessel; a group of large, solid…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (594+ words) These black spheres from nearly 4 miles beneath the Pacific conceal fragile creatures with biology scientists did not expect to find in the abyss. At nearly 4 miles below the Pacific, even basic facts about animal life are difficult to establish. The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (693+ words) Millions of years ago, Earth was home to flying insects unlike anything alive today. A new study is uncovering the hidden factors that allowed these prehistoric giants to reach astonishing sizes. Some 300 million years ago, giant insects soared over Earth’s…...