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Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (705+ words) The reduction appears to be unique in the millipede order Polydesmida, and in both known adult females the flattened leg bases sit over the vulva like a lid. More than forty adult males came out of the same litter sample, and…...
French, Russian, and German researchers thawed sediment from nine sites of Siberian and Kamchatkan permafrost and revived thirteen previously undescribed viruses, the oldest of them from ground beneath a Yakutian lake bed dated to more than 48,500 years, and the reason every one of the thirteen can infect nothing but amoebae is a decision the team made before the first sample went into the dish
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (33+ words) Scientists resurrected viruses frozen for 48,500 years, but deliberately chose to study only those that infect single-celled organisms—a safety decision that reveals how researchers navigate the ethics of reviving ancient pathogens....
Scientists have traced the human eye back to a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago — and remnants of that ancient “cyclops” eye may still survive inside our brains as the pineal gland
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (197+ words) René Descartes decided the soul entered the body through the pineal gland, a lump of tissue roughly the size of a rice grain, buried near the centre of the...
A fossil pincer more than 159 millimetres long has been identified as a scorpion's, after a century in which the animal was most often filed among the crustaceans, and the scorpion reading was still being rejected in 2024
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (690+ words) Announcements from Manchester and the Natural History Museum call Praearcturus gigas the largest scorpion ever to exist, about a metre long. The revision they are announcing states no total body length for it, and no specimen preserves a sting. By…...
For a few months each spring, underwater microphones off New York fill with the calls of endangered sei whales — then, as the ocean warms, the voices almost disappear, revealing a migration that happens largely beyond human sight
1+ week, 5+ day ago (98+ words) Ocean microphones are catching glimpses of a species that remains nearly invisible to science, revealing how climate shapes the hidden movements of endangered whales....
The ocean looks like one vast sunlit body of water, but below about 600 feet there is too little light for photosynthesis, and below 3,300 feet sunlight disappears entirely—leaving much of Earth’s surface in permanent darkness.
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (908+ words) By Life Signs · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit That creates two separate thresholds. The first is an energy threshold for primary producers. The second, hundreds of metres lower, is an optical threshold at which direct sunlight…...
The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (739+ words) A thriving population of woolly mammoths vanished abruptly from a remote island, defying every expectation about how small, isolated groups collapse. By Life Signs · Edited by Mal James Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit A small group of woolly mammoths clung…...
A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what dragged it up from a world it was never meant to leave.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (27+ words) The team from a Spanish marine research NGO called Condrik Tenerife had spent the day two kilometres off the west coast of the island, on their research...
Why did taxonomists name a new rove beetle genus Luffy, after the One Piece pirate whose arms stretch?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (403+ words) Two entomologists described the genus from four pinned specimens collected in Yunnan and Laos, and wrote the reason for the name into the paper. It is about proportions, not powers....
Trees are connected by fungal threads beneath the soil, trading carbon and chemical signals in ways scientists are still arguing over — including whether a dying tree can pass part of itself into the forest before it goes
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (31+ words) Feed a birch seedling air laced with a rare form of carbon, wait nine days, and some of that carbon turns up inside a fir tree standing a few metres away....