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When a male anglerfish finds a mate, he bites into her side and never lets go — enzymes dissolve the boundary between their bodies until little is left of him but a permanent attachment on hers
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (488+ words) Nature's most extreme marriage: the male anglerfish sacrifices his body to become a permanent organ fused to his mate's flesh. Published August 12, 2026 · How we edit Eight hundred metres down, in water that is functionally black, a fish the size of…...
Five mass extinction events have swept Earth, each wiping out most species — and many biologists argue the sixth is already in its early stages, driven not by an asteroid or volcanic eruption but by a single species altering the atmosphere, oceans and ecosystems faster than many other species can adapt or move
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (865+ words) The changes humans are making to the planet are happening over a few centuries, but in geological terms that is still extremely fast. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 12, 2026 · How we edit The changes humans are making to the…...
A 2025 study in Scientific Reports found that pet owners who leaned on animals as a substitute for human company were not less lonely for it; the substitution itself was linked to more loneliness, and that loneliness explained the drop in wellbeing
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (770+ words) ScienceBlog.com Jaining Li and Nichol Wong, at the Education University of Hong Kong, published a study in October 2025 in Scientific Reports that looked at exactly this pattern, pet owners who lean on animals specifically in place of people, and…...
A wolf's howl can carry more than 6 miles in open country — far enough to cross a whole valley — and wolves can discriminate individual callers from their howls.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (515+ words) Wolves don't just announce their presence—they're running a sophisticated communication network where every howl carries identity, location, and social meaning across miles of wilderness. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit What the howl is doing matters as much as how…...
Dog and owner stress hormones rose and fell together across summer and winter, but the famous study came from Sweden, not Vienna??? and it measured hair cortisol, not years of behaviour
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (1001+ words) Hair cortisol in 58 dog-owner pairs moved together across summer and winter. The finding came from Sweden, not a multi-year Vienna behaviour study, and it shows association rather than emotional transmission. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit A dog can read the…...
In 2006 researchers dredged a clam off the coast of Iceland and prised it open to count its growth rings, and only afterwards worked out what they had done — the animal had been alive since 1499, the oldest individual creature ever recorded
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (491+ words) Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The clam was one of about 200. It came up in a routine dredge off Iceland in 2006, part of a batch collected by a team from Bangor University for a project reconstructing centuries of ocean climate…...
Only a tiny handful of animals understand that the creature in the mirror is themselves, and one of them weighs six tonnes.
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (242+ words) The ability to recognize yourself in a mirror is so rare in the animal kingdom that every species capable of it could fit in a single paragraph—yet this seemingly simple cognitive feat may hold clues to consciousness itself. Published…...
The octopus bloom off Devon and Cornwall is only the fourth time this has happened in 125 years, and UK fishermen have landed more than 1,200 tonnes of the animal in a single season
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (165+ words) A rare surge of octopuses off Britain's southwest coast has upended fishing traditions and raised urgent questions about what's driving these mysterious arrivals from warmer waters. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Nato Lagidze Published August 4, 2026 · How we edit…...
Dogs are supposed to steal forbidden food more often when their owner's eyes are closed, and when researchers ran the test on hunting dogs in five countries, the effect did not appear
1+ week, 1+ day ago (672+ words) The paper is titled "Striking global similarities in dog–human interactions," and the owners who read their dogs best were hunters in Vanuatu, not Germany. Published August 4, 2026 · How we edit The null sits inside a paper titled “Striking global similarities…...
A humpback whale photographed off Brazil in 2003 was identified 22 years later in Australia, 15,100 kilometres away — the greatest distance ever recorded between two sightings of the same humpback whale
2+ week, 4+ day ago (486+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 25, 2026 The whales were not tracked by satellite or fitted with tags. They were identified the way humpback whales have been catalogued for decades, from the underside of their tails. Each of…...