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May 10, 2024

Hopping to New Heights

In Australia and the neighboring island of New Guinea, paleontologists have found evidence of three unknown extinct species of kangaroos, the Independent reported. All three species existed between 5 million and 40,000 years ago and belong to a genus that has since disappeared, Protemnodon. Though fossils of...

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May 09, 2024

Finding Links

In May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin, stumbled upon a remarkable discovery while fossil-hunting on Blue Anchor Beach in Somerset, England. Through a bit of sleuthing, the family confirmed that the four-inch-long, oval-shaped fossil they had found belonged to an extinct marine reptile...

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May 08, 2024

Big City Lights

Many young people leaving a small town struggle when moving to the big city. These individuals would be able to easily relate to the trials and tribulations of Englishman Ben Browne who experienced the same when he moved to London in 1719. His life, struggles and achievements...

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May 07, 2024

Rise of the Protector

Earth’s magnetic field has long played an important role in preserving life on the planet. Now, scientists are shedding some new light onto its early origins, Popular Mechanics reported. The magnetic field is powered by our planet’s iron core and protects all life from being blasted...

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May 06, 2024

Desert Highways

Archaeologists discovered that ancient humans inhabited a lava tube in modern-day Saudi Arabia for thousands of years, the first time such a geological formation has been investigated by an archaeological team in the region, Cosmos Magazine reported. In their study, a research team wrote that they...

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May 03, 2024

Slithering Forests

India’s prehistoric forests were home to a massive, extinct snake species that scientists believe was one of the largest to have ever existed, Newsweek reported. In a new study, a research team uncovered the fossilized remains of Vasuki indicus in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The...

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May 02, 2024

Something Old, Something New

The world’s most popular brew of coffee has some very ancient origins, according to a new study. Researchers recently discovered that Coffea arabica – popularly known as just “arabica” – is around 600,000 years old, the Associated Press reported. For their research, scientists analyzed the genomes of...

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May 01, 2024

A Deadly Inheritance

The Italian mafia has long employed one particular brutal means to teach a lesson: It places errant individuals on their stomachs with a rope around their ankles and neck, which leads to a slow strangulation by the weight of their legs. It’s called “incaprettamento,” and it...

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April 30, 2024

Out on the Town

People in the American Midwest will enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime, albeit noisy, experience this summer. Trillions of cicadas from two broods will emerge simultaneously and offer a concert of mating songs, the Washington Post reported. They belong to Brood XIII and Brood XIX. The last time these two...

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April 29, 2024

What Lies Within

Scientists recently identified a rare fourth instance of endosymbiosis, a phenomenon where one species lives inside another for mutual benefit, with profound implications for understanding evolution, New Scientist reported. Endosymbiosis is not uncommon in nature. Notable examples include nitrogen-fixing bacteria found within the roots of legumes,...

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April 25, 2024

The Jewels Within

On the surface, mangrove forests, the narrow strips of tangled trees and plants in salt or brackish water along tropical and subtropical coastlines, don’t look particularly inviting. But they hide treasures. Recently, for example, a major biodiversity survey on a Cambodian mangrove forest revealed the presence of...

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April 24, 2024

Long, Lost Friends

The relationship between dogs and humans goes back thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean man’s best friend didn’t compete with other animals for affection. A new analysis of the buried remains of a 1,500-year-old fox in northwestern Argentina suggested that humans and the canid species...

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April 23, 2024

Picking Sides

Scientists recently discovered that a gene variant may play a role in determining if a person is a leftie or a rightie, the Smithsonian Magazine reported. The prevailing research has attributed the determining factors to brain asymmetry, with left-handed individuals exhibiting dominance in the right hemisphere. This...

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April 22, 2024

Seafaring Potters

Archeologists unearthed dozens of pottery fragments on an island on the Great Barrier Reef dating back 2,000 to 3,000 years, marking the oldest pottery ever found in Australia, Science Alert reported. Crafted from locally sourced clay and sand, the pottery challenges colonial stereotypes and showcases the...

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April 19, 2024

Waterhole Routes

The Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago left a lake 62 miles long and 1,600 feet deep in Indonesia, a testament to the largest known natural disaster in the last 2.5 million years – its effects were felt around the globe. For decades, the common belief has...

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April 18, 2024

Earth Time

Global warming is widely credited for causing ice to melt at both the Earth’s poles, leading to a rise in sea levels. And that in turn is shifting water, causing our planet to spin more slowly, Scientific American reported. Combined with other forces that alter Earth’s rotation...

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April 17, 2024

Canine Canny

Many dog owners swear their pooches understand them. Now, a new groundbreaking study shows they actually might. The research suggests that canines possess a more sophisticated understanding of human language than previously recognized, the Los Angeles Times reported. To arrive at that conclusion, neuroscientist Marianna Boros and her...

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April 16, 2024

Blood in the Soil

A new genetic analysis is shedding new light on the ancestral lineage and enduring presence of North America’s Blackfoot Indigenous peoples, Science Magazine reported. Conducted collaboratively by a team of geneticists and Blackfoot community members, the study provided further support to Indigenous oral traditions and archeological...

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April 15, 2024

Four Eyes

Most spiders have more than two eyes – but not daddy longlegs. These basement-dwelling arachnids – which are technically not spiders – are known to have only two forward-facing peepers. However, this wasn’t always the case, the Smithsonian Magazine reported. Daddy longlegs belong to an arachnid group known...

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