Only two dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. But unlike bats, these dinos were capable of…
News published in “Science”
A type of bone tool generally thought to have been invented by Stone Age humans got its start among hominids that lived hundreds of thousands…
An unforgiving environmental twist deserves at least some credit for the behavioral flexibility that has characterized the human species since our African origins around 300,000…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is a cosmic rock collector. Cheers erupted from mission control at 6:12 p.m. EDT on October 20 as scientists on Earth got…
The diabolical ironclad beetle is like a tiny tank on six legs. This insect’s rugged exoskeleton is so tough that the beetle can survive getting…
Naked mole-rats — with their subterranean societies made up of a single breeding pair and an army of workers — seem like mammals trying their…
Things are heating up at the seafloor. Thermometers moored at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean recorded an average temperature increase of about 0.02 degrees…
The threat of death is no obstacle for some hungry fire ants. To escape drowning while feeding on sugary water, black imported fire ants built…
With acrobatic leaps, Hainan gibbons can cross a great gully carved by a 2014 landslide in the forest on China’s Hainan Island. But when a…
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump claims his bout with COVID-19 has granted him immunity, reports of people getting the disease a second time are…