This Giant Deep-sea Creature Survives Five Years Without Food, Thanks to a Borrowed Bacterial Gene
The giant deep-sea isopod. Image credits: NOAA/Wikimedia Commons In the dark depths of the ocean, food can be…
The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life
The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
New Fossil Study Challenges the Classic Story of Human Evolution
Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key evolutionary…
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution
Today, lepidosaurs — the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand’s tuatara — are among the…
A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand
Geological setting The Phu Noi Locality is situated in Ban Din Chi village, Kham Muang District, Kalasin Province,…
Scientists Have Identified a New Fossil Species of Axolotl in Mexico
Researchers at the Zaragoza School of Advanced Studies (FES Zaragoza) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)…
Scientists Just Found a Smiling “Happy-Face” Spider in the Himalayas
Cephalothorax of female holotype of T. himalayana sp. nov. Credit: Devi Priyadarshini and Ashirwad Tripathy For more than…
A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas. Credit: Franz Anthony Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may…
Scientists Discover the Oldest Known Fossils of Humans’ Closest Invertebrate Relatives
A deuterostome cambroernid fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota (~554-539mya), plus artist’s reconstruction (scale bar: 2mm). Credit: Gaorong Li…
Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum
Subjects and recordings Audio recordings were collected from four species of non-human primates (four orangutans, two gorillas, three…
Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled
Great apes and human children produce similar patterns of vocalization when laughing.Credit: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP via Getty Tickling a…