Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer
The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
Meet The Squirrel That Turns Off Its Brain For 8 Months Every Year — A Biologist Explains
The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on…
Scientists Discover New Form of Life From 410 Million Years Ago
Artist reconstruction of P. taiti within the Rhynie ecosystem. Credit: M. Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios / CC BY…
Meet The Silver-Backed Chevrotain — A Mouse-Deer That Vanished For 25 Years, Rediscovered By A Camera Trap
Once written off as extinct, the silver-backed chevrotain forces scientists to confront how much of biodiversity still lives…
Meet The Fish That Can Recognize Human Faces — A Biologist Explains
A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the…
We Evolved Something Else Instead
Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped…
Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
Protected Planet Report 2020 (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2021). Pringle, R. M. Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity.…
Five rules for scientifically credible nature markets
UNEP. State of Finance for Nature 2023 (UNEP, 2023). Kedward, K., zu Ermgassen, S. O. S. E., Ryan-Collins,…
Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Sebé-Pedrós, A. et al. The dynamic regulatory genome of capsaspora and the origin of animal multicellularity. Cell 165,…
No Red Blood Cells? No Problem, For This Noodlefish
Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of…
Fossil skulls reveal how well extinct mammals could smell
We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger,…
They Send Messages Via The Air
Volatile compounds drifting on the breeze. Electrical pulses firing under bark. Scientists are discovering that trees are anything…