1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (727+ words) A new study suggests almost all animal communication shares a common, slow rhythm 11: 00 AM CDT on July 9, 2026 Birds chirp, sing, and squawk. Cats purr and snarl. Insects click and hiss. Most of these sounds are meant for members of the…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago  (162+ words) A maternally inherited bacteria that turns males into females is foiled by a brief warm spell 9: 18 AM CDT on July 9, 2026 There's a new chapter in the bizarre and ongoing story that is sex determination in animals, and it's got an…...

23+ hour, 21+ min ago  (213+ words) The science behind nature's different puncture tools 1: 01 PM CDT on July 8, 2026 With "puncture" defined as "the use of a sharpened tool to penetrate a target while the target remains intact," the study authors plotted shape against performance for 143 natural structures…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (217+ words) 9: 17 AM CDT on July 6, 2026 Although we often talk with our dogs, cross-species communication is poorly studied. It requires animals to interpret cues and signals outside of their own species" behavioral frameworks. Still, in numerous scenarios, cooperation between species could prove…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (131+ words) A new study goes deep on the interaction between activities and hostile wildlife 1: 00 PM CDT on July 2, 2026 So what can you do to avoid finding yourself staring down an angry animal?" Finally, remember: There's no picture or video worth your…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (279+ words) Its life in the darkness could shine a light on other neural rewiring 11: 00 AM CDT on July 2, 2026 If a population of humans were to move entirely into dark, underground caves, you'd expect to see changes in their behavior. They'd favor…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (169+ words) Citizen scientists strike again 2: 00 PM CDT on July 1, 2026 "While some other genera in eupelmidae are specialized egg parasitoids, most species of Eupelmus attack larvae or pupae of other insects, and only very few are known to develop inside mantis oothecae,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (287+ words) Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer 2: 30 PM CDT on June 30, 2026 The famous saber-tooth cat that lived in North America beginning about 2 million years ago survived by ambushing prey such as camels and ground sloths…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (237+ words) The overwhelming majority are unknown to science 3: 00 PM CDT on June 29, 2026 To estimate global insect diversity, the team extrapolated further, comparing the number of different species of trees in the AGC (1, 200 to 1, 500) to the tree species diversity worldwide (about 73, 000). That…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (231+ words) It paves the way for understanding how ray-finned fishes came to dominate Earth's oceans 4: 00 PM CDT on June 29, 2026 How the family tree of these early ray-finned fishes emerged to ultimately yield the huge variety of species we see today, however,…...