16+ hour, 10+ min ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...

21+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1008+ words) Seattle coyotes live at nine times the density of Washington's wild lands, with fewer predators, fewer hunters, and far more to eat. Coyotes tend to avoid people. Yet they live far closer together in Seattle than in the wild country…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1043+ words) Coral reefs are under growing heat stress, but a new field test suggests researchers may have another tool to help them cope. Coral probiotics have worked in tanks for years, where a researcher controls the water and decides when the…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (984+ words) Small stickleback shoals lined up and swam closer together in murky water, and the tighter fish groups reached food faster. A shoal of fish stays together mostly by sight. Each fish watches its neighbors and adjusts, so when silt or…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1057+ words) Periodical cicadas have failed to return to many recovered forests, and new research suggests natural recolonization could take centuries. Periodical cicadas spend more than a decade underground before pushing out of the ground by the trillions, covering the trees for…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (791+ words) A 23-million-year fossil record shows Africa's giant mammals slowly vanished over time because evolution stopped replacing them. Ten million years ago, an African floodplain carried more kinds of giant plant-eaters than most people could name today. Early relatives of elephants,…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (777+ words) Trees protect wild animals from extreme heat and cold by keeping temperatures inside their cavities more stable than outside. Deep inside the trunk of an old tree, temperatures can remain surprisingly stable, even when the world outside is baking or…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (759+ words) Rich in battery-metal nodules, the Pacific's vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone has become a deep-sea mining hotspot, holding 17 international exploration contracts. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is home to an estimated 5,578 animal species, and roughly 88 to 92 percent of them lack scientific names. That single…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1182+ words) Snakes and lizards made up a surprising share of meals at a Natufian settlement, where the same butchering method persisted for millennia. The familiar picture of the Stone Age diet centers on big animals: a gazelle on a spit, a…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (887+ words) Przewalski’s horse foal is born in Kazakhstan for the first time in 200 years, marking a major conservation milestone. A small colt has marked a major turn in one of Central Asia’s largest wildlife restoration efforts. On August 22, 2026, a Przewalski’s horse…...