When your dog’s big, pleading eyes look up at you, is it with old-age wisdom or teenage naiveté? Researchers came up with a new equation to calculate your dog’s age in human years. And the math isn’t as simple as…
This life restoration shows the snake Najash rionegrina moving through the dunes of the Kokorkom desert that extended across Río Negro (in Northern Patagonia), Argentina, during the Late Cretaceous (100 million years ago). On very rare occasions, an exceptional fossil…
Evolutionary scientists have been thinking about same-sex sexual behavior all wrong. That’s the implication of a new study on same-sex behavior in animals. Instead of asking why animals engage in same-sex behavior (SSB), researchers should be asking, “Why not?” the…
The erythrosuchid species Garjainia madiba, illustrated here, was native to South Africa. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, tank-like predators that looked like Komodo dragons with absurdly huge heads roamed the planet. And it turned out that these reptiles, known…
When turkeys were reintroduced about 50 years ago, no one dreamed the birds would thrive in the suburbs. And now, they’ve become a nuisance. AMHERST, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Wild turkeys are a familiar sight throughout New Hampshire, where flocks strut…
Pigeons in Paris are sometimes missing a toe and now researchers think they know why: human hair. Bird-watchers in Paris have for years noticed something odd about the city’s pigeons: Many of the omnipresent avians are missing one or more…
The pup still had its milk teeth, suggesting it was under 2 months old when it died. A young pup that spent 18,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost looks remarkably lifelike and pettable — for a freeze-dried mummy. From its…
A photographer documents the creative architecture the Swiss have made to help their feline friends get around. SWITZERLAND MAY BE the best place in the world to be a housecat. They have freedom, autonomy—and their own cat-specific architecture. Be it…
The whale stranded while still alive and had been dead for about 48 hours before experts with the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme performed a necropsy. When workers with a whale strandings agency in Scotland performed a necropsy on a…
Jeff Fobb holds a Burmese python as he speaks to the media at the start of the Python Challenge in 2013 in Davie, Florida. The state of Florida is preparing to host the Super Bowl in January … and to…
Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China pic.twitter.com/ppu9qidp3EDecember 9, 2019 Two piglets recently born in China look like average swine on the outside, but on the inside, they are (a very small) part monkey. A…
Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here’s what we know. WHY WOULD AN apex ocean predator eat gloves? Or rope? Or plastic cups? How does a whale end up with more than 90 kilograms…