A 5,700-year-old lump of chewed birch tar dug up on a Danish island gave up...
A dark, pliable lump about the size of a thumbnail came out of the mud at Syltholm, on the southern Danish island of Lolland, during excavations run by Museum Lolland-Falster ahead of construction on...
View ArticleChemical bonds locked inside fossil teeth put T. rex’s body temperature at...
Three fossil teeth from two Tyrannosaurus rex individuals have yielded an estimated average body temperature of 36.3 degrees Celsius. The uncertainty is plus or minus 2.5 degrees at one standard error,...
View ArticleIn July 2025, three African wild dog brothers left their pack in Zambia’s...
Three male African wild dogs left the Mayukuyuku pack in Zambia’s Kafue National Park in July 2025 and did not stop moving for roughly eight months. By the time GPS collars showed them settling into a...
View ArticleFifty reindeer genomes from six Norwegian herds show a feral population...
A herd of reindeer released from Sami reindeer husbandry in central Norway about fifty years ago has been taking up DNA from the wild herds around it, and the borrowed DNA sits most heavily in the...
View ArticleTwo Tasmanian devil specimens came out of Juukan 2, the Pilbara rock shelter...
Tasmanian devil remains have come out of more than 120 Quaternary deposits across Australia. Until now, not one of them was in the Pilbara. Two specimens from the Juukan 2 rock shelter on Puutu Kunti...
View ArticleEven on a clear day, Earth’s atmosphere holds a vertical electric field of...
The air above a quiet field is electrically different from the ground beneath it. In fair weather, the electric potential typically rises by about 120 volts for every meter of height near a flat...
View ArticleA ranch dog in Wyoming brought home a dead animal in 1981, two years after...
Shep started barking outside the bedroom window at three in the morning, and John and Lucille Hogg rolled over and went back to sleep. Porcupine, probably. Next day John found a carcass near the house:...
View ArticleA dinosaur previously known only from North America has turned up in eastern...
On their own, a set of tail bones is not the kind of find that makes headlines. What made these ones unusual was their identification. The bones pointed to a dinosaur genus that, for nearly a century...
View ArticleTwenty-nine reindeer were put on a remote Bering Sea island in 1944, reached...
In August 1944, a US Coast Guard barge unloaded twenty-nine yearling reindeer onto a remote island in the Bering Sea, roughly two hundred miles from the nearest inhabited place. The animals,...
View ArticleAfter surviving 70 to 80 years in the Atlantic, a 270-pound loggerhead turtle...
Seven miles south of Sugarloaf Key, on a July day, a very old animal forgot which way was forward. She was about 270 pounds of loggerhead, roughly 120 kilograms, flippers slapping at nothing, head...
View ArticleIn 1949, five cats were put ashore on sub-Antarctic Marion Island to control...
In the late 1940s, a weather station on a windswept island in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean had a mouse problem, and someone reached for the oldest fix there is. Five domestic cats were landed on...
View ArticleIn a University of Southern California lab in 2025, researchers placed an...
A mouse prised open its unconscious cage mate’s jaw, took hold of the tongue and hauled it clear of the throat. Nobody had taught it that. It had never seen an unresponsive mouse in its life, which is...
View ArticleA sea slug observed in a Japanese lab did something no vertebrate is known to...
One morning in a lab at Nara Women’s University, a sea slug’s head crawled away and left the rest of the animal sitting there. The abandoned body did not die. It shifted when touched. Inside it, a...
View ArticleBy 1921, trappers had leased 23 Aleutian islands and stocked them mainly with...
By 1921, 23 of the Aleutian Islands had been leased and stocked mainly with arctic foxes. The foxes were released so that trappers could return later and take their fur. Over the next two decades,...
View ArticleIn September 2026, AWC captured 48 red-tailed phascogales at Mt Gibson — more...
A red-tailed phascogale is the kind of animal you can spend a career not seeing. It is small, fast, and wary — a carnivorous marsupial built for slipping out of sight — and ecologists generally count...
View ArticleIn September 2026, a Jaén study logged 22 breeding red kite pairs after 186...
A study published on 11 September 2026 reports 22 breeding pairs of red kite in the province of Jaén, in Andalusia, southern Spain, following the release of 186 birds between 2021 and 2025 — and, along...
View ArticleOn Sulawesi, teeth from a hunter-gatherer who lived between 25,000 and 16,000...
Teeth from two preagricultural hunter-gatherers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi preserve an unusual pairing: deep, rounded wear left by repeatedly holding a hard object in the mouth, and chemical...
View ArticleMost fly maggots feed on dead tissue. New World screwworm larvae eat living...
The word “maggot” usually evokes decay. Many familiar blowfly larvae develop in carrion, manure or decomposing material, but the New World screwworm is built around a more damaging strategy. Its larvae...
View ArticleThree saltwater crocodiles that had spent years in captivity in Bangladesh,...
A satellite-tracking study of five saltwater crocodiles in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, published in Wildlife Research with Ruchira Somaweera as first author, found that the three animals that had been...
View ArticleHedgehogs were let go in a South Uist garden in 1974 to deal with the slugs,...
In 1974, someone on South Uist, an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, released seven hedgehogs into a domestic garden hoping they would eat the slugs and snails destroying the vegetable patch....
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