SScience Read More How a Comox Valley fossil discovery forever changed paleontology in B.C. | Spare NewsFebruary 5, 2026 In late autumn 1988, Richard Hebda — then head of botany at the Royal BC Museum — stepped…
SScience Read More Did Humans Nearly Go Extinct 900,000 Years Ago? A Biologist ExplainsJanuary 25, 2026 At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what…
SScience Read More It Was Longer Than A PersonJanuary 25, 2026 Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges…
SScience Read More Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The AnswerJanuary 24, 2026 The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
SScience Read More Meet The Squirrel That Turns Off Its Brain For 8 Months Every Year — A Biologist ExplainsJanuary 24, 2026 The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on…
SScience Read More Meet The Silver-Backed Chevrotain — A Mouse-Deer That Vanished For 25 Years, Rediscovered By A Camera TrapJanuary 23, 2026 Once written off as extinct, the silver-backed chevrotain forces scientists to confront how much of biodiversity still lives…
EEnvironment Read More Five rules for scientifically credible nature marketsJanuary 12, 2026 UNEP. State of Finance for Nature 2023 (UNEP, 2023). Kedward, K., zu Ermgassen, S. O. S. E., Ryan-Collins,…
SScience Read More Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomesJanuary 7, 2026 Sebé-Pedrós, A. et al. The dynamic regulatory genome of capsaspora and the origin of animal multicellularity. Cell 165,…
SScience Read More No Red Blood Cells? No Problem, For This NoodlefishJanuary 1, 2026 Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of…
SScience Read More They Send Messages Via The AirDecember 7, 2025 Volatile compounds drifting on the breeze. Electrical pulses firing under bark. Scientists are discovering that trees are anything…
MMental health Read More Study Warns of Major Toll ‘Chronic Stress’ Could Be Taking On HumansDecember 4, 2025 Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study…
SScience Read More How The Frogfish Perfected The Art Of Deep-Sea Fishing — A Biologist ExplainsNovember 29, 2025 A new study reveals how frogfish mastered their eerie fishing trick: by rearranging their motor neurons. Here’s the…