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A Trilobite Pompeii Preserves Exquisite Fossils in Volcanic Ash
A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago.
By Jack Tamisiea
A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago.
By Jack Tamisiea
A fatal fungal disease has devastated the world’s amphibians. But the fungus has a vulnerability: It cannot tolerate heat.
By Emily Anthes
Researchers discovered painted ladies on a South American beach and then built a case that they started their journey in Europe or Africa.
By Monique Brouillette
There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.
By Veronique Greenwood
Researchers analyzed a skull found in Montana of a plant-eating member of the ceratops family, finding distinct traits.
By Asher Elbein
Researchers say the nearly mile-long swim was the longest by big cats ever recorded.
By Anthony Ham
Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics.
By Lucas Joel
An analysis of elephant calls using an artificial intelligence tool suggests that the animals may use and respond to individualized rumbles.
By Kate Golembiewski
They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.
By Darren Incorvaia
During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates.
By William J. Broad
Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.
By Jordan Pearson
A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen.
By Sofia Quaglia
Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire.
By Joshua Rapp Learn
If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device.
By Jordan Pearson
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New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.
By Rachel Nuwer
The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting themselves in two to reproduce for more than 150 million years.
By Jack Tamisiea
By sequencing an enormous amount of data, a group of hundreds of researchers has gained new insights into how flowers evolved on Earth.
By Veronique Greenwood
Divers and marine biologists are getting a window into the lives of a red crustacean most often found in the guts of other species.
By Jules Jacobs
A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.
By Sam Kean
Dice snakes found on an island in southeastern Europe fully commit themselves to the role of ex-reptile.
By Asher Elbein
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