Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

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The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

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A new open-source device records whale clicks with context, giving AI the data it needs to search for structure in sperm ...

Convergent evolution essentially happens when animals and plants have to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of Okinawa, grows what most might mistake for a mushroom—but it is actually a very ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory behavior had never been documented in the region. A pygmy sperm whale was ...