A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and dazed, unable to orient herself or recognize the danger of an oncoming semitruck. What kills her is the impact of 13 tons of steel, but what causes her ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2025
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Researchers have decoded a long-standing mystery of how flowering plants ensure their sperm cells successfully reach the egg for fertilization, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Plants.
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2025
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The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized. Research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ankylosaur, as well as a unique ...
Evolution
Aug 27, 2025
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An international research team led by Dr. Verónica Díez Díaz from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has used new digital 3D reconstructions to gain detailed insights into the mobility of the tail of the sauropod Giraffatitan ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 21, 2025
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In 1871, Charles Darwin introduced his theory of sexual selection by female choice in The Descent of Man. He suggested females of a species would exhibit a preference for beauty and ornamentation when choosing mates, leading ...
Evolution
Aug 18, 2025
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On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2025
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Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum have discovered something surprisingly familiar among the site's exotic ancient tapirs and rhinos: the first fossil deer, representing one of the earliest records of the deer ...
Evolution
Aug 12, 2025
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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture.
When I tell people I study parasites that live inside ticks, I usually get one of two reactions: a shudder of disgust or a puzzled look that says, "Don't ticks already carry enough diseases?"
Pepper, the pet cat who made headlines last year for his role in the discovery of the first jeilongvirus found in the U.S., is at it again. This time, his hunting prowess has contributed to the identification of a new strain ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 10, 2025
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