1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (870+ words) Deep in the rainforests of Uganda, scientists have watched the largest known group of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) turn on each other, as if engaging in a 'civil war'. The lethal conflict is the first clear example of a ferocious…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (846+ words) It's easy to take our eyes for granted. But our recent research shows they took an incredible evolutionary journey to reach their current familiar form. It has long been known that our (vertebrate) eyes differ fundamentally from the ones of…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (745+ words) A fossil that was fundamental to describing the evolution of octopuses turns out to have been an impostor, all along. The famous 300-million-year-old Pohlsepia mazonensis, discovered in 2000 and later lauded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (399+ words) Pampered penguins in zoos escape the elements and feast on fish to their hearts' content, but care-free living comes at a cost. Newly published research suggests that zoo penguins age faster than their wild counterparts, biologically speaking, and this offers…...

5+ day, 40+ min ago  (572+ words) Nudibranchs are the jewels of the underwater world. That's not just a nice metaphor: Scientists have now discovered that the vibrant colors of sartorial sea slugs really are made up of thousands of tiny crystals embedded in their skin. Biologists…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (409+ words) "Looks like a mimic hatching out of an egg "" wrote one user on X, referring to the extraterrestrial monsters in the Alien movie sequels. "Kill it with fire! !!" another user chimed in. The otherworldly appearance of this organism is, however,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (830+ words) Off the coast of South Africa, near the fishing town of Gansbaai, two orcas have made a name for themselves worldwide. Their names are Port and Starboard, and on multiple occasions, they've been observed hunting and killing one of the…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (851+ words) The beautiful moment when an entire group of sperm whales came together to support the birth of a calf has, for the first time, been recorded in unprecedented detail. Over several hours on 8 July 2023, scientists recorded two sperm whale (Physeter…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (576+ words) Sharks in the Bahamas have tested positive for cocaine, a new study concludes. Researchers from the Bahamas, Brazil, and Chile also found traces of caffeine and painkillers in the sharks. This isn't a shift in lifestyle from the animals, but…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (702+ words) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved wildcats and hyenas to cross the floodplains of Bulgaria " and she may have done so on two legs. A recently described fossil femur offers evidence that this extinct ape, estimated to have…...