15+ hour, 1+ min ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (513+ words) Brigid Lynch was walking through a redwood forest in the San Mateo County hills when she noticed something unusual, half-submerged in the flowing water of a creek: a big smooth object that didn’t look like any of the other rocks....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1186+ words) A 55-metre specimen stranded on a Scottish beach in 1864 made the bootlace worm a contender for the longest animal on Earth. In 2018, Swedish researchers found its mucus contains a peptide neurotoxin that paralyses crabs and kills cockroaches, while leaving mammalian…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (724+ words) A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer countries are still being physically archived in richer ones. The official record of biodiversity helps determine who has access to knowledge, research…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (560+ words) Scientists rediscover a ‘ghost’ green mamba hidden in a Polish museum for decades after its 1885 discover The Times of India...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (653+ words) Deep in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, what appears to be an ordinary aspen grove is actually a single enormous organism. Known as Pando, the sprawling colony of quaking aspens is connected by one underground root system and is widely regarded…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (556+ words) It’s a warm August afternoon, and a gentle breeze rustles the firs and sugar maples at the Rochester Museum & Science Center's Cumming Nature Center in Naples. Judy Dobles, a retiree from Kodak's finance department and now volunteer at the Nature…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (580+ words) The newest member of the Vandal family is an ancient recluse who may inspire fear among people and prey. Research students from the University of Idaho identified a new species of spider that exclusively resides in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (341+ words) A Pennsylvania family found a tooth from a megalodon, a prehistoric shark, in Sea Isle City this month, but how it got there remains a mystery. Above, megalodon teeth at the 2025 Sharks Tooth Festival in Florida. While finding a megalodon…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (487+ words) Bo Bowers was searching for shells with his father when he spotted something unusual wedged between rocks. Experts confirm the four-inch fossilized tooth belonged to the extinct giant shark, calling it one of fewer than five such finds ever documented…...