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Butterfly Brains Could Reveal Secrets of Magnetic Navigation
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (417+ words) Monarch butterflies may hold the key to one of biology's biggest unsolved puzzles: how animals tap into Earth's magnetic field to find their way. In Texas, neurobiologist Robin Grob is performing microsurgery on monarchs, sliding hair-thin electrodes into their brains,…...
What an Ancient Sea Anemone Reveals About the Origins of Animal Complexity
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (510+ words) Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell types. Every cell in an animal's body carries the same DNA. Yet that single genetic blueprint somehow produces neurons that fire,…...
The world’s largest dinosaur footprint site is located in the Bolivian desert and contains more than 16,000 footprints of these incredible animals
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (424+ words) Home - Science - The world's largest dinosaur footprint site is located in the Bolivian desert and contains more than 16,000 footprints of these incredible animals On a bare rock plateau in central Bolivia, the ground looks like it has been stamped again…...
'Little Foot' fossil might be a completely new human species - Earth.com
5+ hour, 17+ min ago (940+ words) In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The "Little Foot," fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves in 1998, has long been treated as a marquee member of the…...
Famous fish that survived the dinosaurs had much older relatives - Earth.com
6+ hour, 13+ min ago (792+ words) Modern sightings of living coelacanths in the 20th century surprised the world, but this fish species" story goes back a long way. Although coelacanth remains are well known from Paleozoic and Cretaceous rocks in Britain, very little is known about their…...
Geologists find fossils of unexpected creatures in Grand Canyon rocks
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (1079+ words) For more than a century, the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon were considered old news, having been carefully mapped, named, and neatly slotted into geology textbooks. But a closer look at those same rocks has uncovered tiny fossil animals…...
We now know much more about how our ancestor 'Lucy' lived — and died
7+ hour, 32+ min ago (1709+ words) Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. From a distance, it might have looked like a small child was wending her…...
Meet the Goblin Shark, a Deep-Sea Predator With the Fastest Bite Ever Recorded and a Hidden Ambush Weapon
8+ hour, 4+ min ago (726+ words) Hidden deep beneath the ocean's surface, a bizarre shark species has just shattered scientific records with a jaw-dropping feeding strike unlike anything ever seen. The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is among the most unusual and least understood predators in the…...
Megalodon: Why This Giant Shark May Still Lurk in the Deep
9+ hour, 34+ min ago (1287+ words) Chris is the co-founder of 'Animals Around The Globe' and a fervent wildlife enthusiast with extensive travels across diverse ecosystems worldwide. From exploring the marine wonders in the Azores and witnessing the vast savannas of Kenya, to delving deep into…...
20 Snake Adaptations That Defy Evolution
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (1214+ words) Snakes are fascinating creatures with unique adaptations that have allowed them to thrive in diverse environments across the globe. While the scientific consensus firmly supports evolutionary processes as the explanation for snake adaptations, some find certain snake features so remarkable…...