A receptor that’s used to find prey is also activated by progesterone. A two-spot octopus in its normal habitat. Credit: […]
Category: Biology
New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian
The fossils, such as this oddity, consist of carbon-rich material in very old sediment deposits. Credit: Gaorong Li & Xiaodong […]
Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
Like a bug on a wind screen Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen. Imagine one of these, […]
The science of how fireflies stay in sync
Skip to content Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes. Scientists have discovered that […]
Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage. Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied […]
A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
But there was one thing that made S. mirabilis different from S. aegyptiacus. The word “mirabilis” in the newly discovered […]
Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?
“We think that in this early deuterostome, the median eye contained both ciliary and rhabdomeric cells,” Kafetzis explains. As a […]
Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more. Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI […]
Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women
By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out […]
Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory
The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented […]