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Search ArticlesIn a Kalahari experiment, meerkat pups received 4 live, stingless scorpions a day for 3 days — on day 4, all 6 pups in that group handled another stingless scorpion successfully, after the researchers had copied the graduated lessons offered by adult meer
A young meerkat facing a live scorpion has a practical problem: getting food without losing control of an animal that can fight back. Older group members can make that problem easier, providing opportunities to practice before the youngster tackles more difficult prey.
When a dog gazes into its owner’s eyes, oxytocin can rise in both of them, creating a bonding loop involving the same hormone released between mothers and babies — Japanese researchers found wolves did not show the same effect
Some of the strongest evidence that a dog loves you arrived, unromantically, in a specimen cup. A team at Azabu University in Japan put dogs and their owners together in a quiet room for thirty minutes and told them to behave normally. Some owners talked to their dogs, others patted them, and a few just held eye contact and let that do the work. Urine samples were taken before and after, because the chemical being measured leaves the body that way.
An ROV survey in October 2024 under a tuna ranch off north-east Malta counted an estimated 100 to 150 common eagle rays — the largest known aggregation of Myliobatis aquila, apparently feeding on leftover baitfish
At about 50 meters down, in the shadow of floating pens holding penned bluefin tuna off Malta’s north-eastern coast, a remotely operated vehicle flew over a seabed that was moving.
A jar of transparent hydromedusae scooped out of Tanabe Bay, Wakayama, in 2018 by Ryoya Sugimoto, 13, held a species nobody had described; the paper naming Orchistoma integrale ran 14 pages in Plankton and Benthos Research on February 28, 2025, the fifth
A transparent jellyfish scooped out of the water off a dock in Tanabe Bay, Wakayama, Japan, in 2018 by a 13-year-old named Ryoya Sugimoto has been formally described as a new species, Orchistoma integrale, in a paper published February 28, 2025, in the journal Plankton and Benthos Research. The 14-page description, spanning pages 62 to 75 of the journal’s twentieth volume, makes Sugimoto — now a university student — the lead author of a paper naming only the fifth known species in its genus.
In 1971, researchers moved 10 wall lizards onto a small Croatian island — 36 years later, their descendants had stronger bites and a plant-heavy diet, with valves in their intestines that the scientists could not find in the population on their original i
Ten lizards carried between two Adriatic islands in 1971 became the starting point for an unusually revealing comparison. Their descendants did more than establish a population: they ate differently and developed a different feeding apparatus. The transfer involved five male and five female Italian wall lizards, moved from Pod Kopište to Pod Mrčaru in Croatia.
A ridge of shell weathering out of the Bridger Formation on Bureau of Land Management ground in southwest Wyoming caught the eye of Touren Pope, 11, of Nevada; the soft-shelled turtle he named Little Timmy is about 48 million years old, and a small toy si
A rockhounding trip with his grandparents turned into a paleontological find for 11-year-old Touren Pope, of Nevada, after he spotted an odd-looking piece of shell weathering out of a badlands outcrop on public land in southwest Wyoming last fall. The fossil, later excavated by museum staff and dated to roughly 48 million years old, turned out to be the nearly complete upper shell of an ancient soft-shelled turtle.
Beneath a field of loose rubble on Utah’s Mount Timpanogos, scientists mapped a hidden mass of ice up to 150 feet thick — enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools
A field of loose rubble under the summit of Mount Timpanogos hides enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools. Nothing on the surface gives it away. That figure comes from University of Utah geologists who spent the autumn of 2024 climbing to a cirque, a bowl gouged into the mountainside above Emerald Lake, to survey what lay beneath the rubble there. The hike alone runs roughly eight kilometres and climbs about 1,100 metres.
We tend to think humans domesticated wolves, but one influential hypothesis proposes some Ice Age wolves began the process themselves by scavenging around human camps, where the bolder, less fearful individuals that tolerated people gained easier access t
A 14,300-year-old dog jawbone from Gough’s Cave in Somerset has spent nearly a century in the Natural History Museum’s collections. In March 2026, ancient-DNA work finally confirmed what its bones alone could not: genetically, the animal was a dog rather than a wolf. It was not even the oldest dog in the study.
In 1982 a husband and wife began recording mammals along fixed trails on an island in the Panama Canal, later adding a line of camera traps, and they kept it up for 44 years. This year they began handing the project to a younger researcher who wants it to
Two things happened, 44 years apart, on the same forested island in the middle of the Panama Canal. In 1982, a married pair of researchers started walking a fixed set of trails once a year, writing down every mammal they saw and how common it was. In 2026, a younger researcher took the lead, aiming for something none of them will live to see: to keep the count going until it reaches a full century.
Scientists in Switzerland made a sponge from cheesemaking waste that captures gold from discarded electronics — after dissolving metal parts from 20 old computer motherboards, they recovered enough to melt into a 22-carat gold nugget
Cheese leaves behind a pale, watery liquid that most dairies treat as a disposal headache. A lab in Zurich turned some of it into a gold nugget. Not metaphorically. An actual nugget, in three pieces, the largest about five millimetres wide. Working with metal parts stripped from 20 discarded computer motherboards, researchers at ETH Zurich dissolved the lot in acid and then fished the gold back out using a sponge made from whey protein.