6+ hour, 3+ min ago   (403+ words) A piece of burnt coconut helped scientists uncover a species new to science in Sri Lanka. The discovery began more than 2 decades ago, when researchers trapped two unusual mice in the Knuckles Mountain Range. The animal has now been formally…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (293+ words) A cameraman waited 17 hours in freezing cold to capture this unbelievable polar bear shot. “This is the most incredible perspective of a polar bear that I’ve ever seen—down to the way the ice, water, and bubbles frame the bear’s…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...

3+ day, 44+ min ago   (890+ words) Universität Bern Evolutionary home advantage: Study reveals adaptation to be surprisingly local A research team from the University of Bern has shown in a large-scale field experiment that populations of the same fish species can be much more fine-tuned to…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (394+ words) In reality, these aren’t just lumps of snow. Such formations consist of several layers that twist around one another. The snow inside often remains loose, so over time, some of it may simply blow out. Because of this, a hole…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (792+ words) A mother just wanted to make her daughters happy with a visit to the pet store, only to return home with a lifelong commitment she probably didn’t think through. Brandy Barnard (@livinglifewithhunny) admitted that choosing an African spurred tortoise as…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (71+ words) As the most diverse class of animals, insects have dominated terrestrial ecosystems for the past 320 million years. However, the origins of this successful group have faded into the abysses of geological time. A collection of fossils reveals the unusual body…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...