Cameron Duke
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360 million-year-old 'alien' fish wasn't bus-size, but barely half that, new study reveals
One of the largest ancient fish on record, known as Dunkleosteus, was actually half as long, but still super chunky, a new study finds. → Read More
52 million years ago, strange primates lived in complete darkness in the Arctic
During the Eocene, the Arctic was a warm, swampy place that these primates called home. → Read More
Prickly echidnas stay cool by blowing snot bubbles
Echidnas use booger bubbles to stay cool in hot weather Down Under. → Read More
Ancient toothless 'eel' is your earliest known ancestor
A perplexing mystery fish may have finally been placed on the evolutionary tree of life as an ancestor of all four-limbed animals, also known as tetrapods. → Read More
Great white sharks may have driven megalodon to extinction
Megalodon dominated its ocean ecosystem — until great white sharks came along. → Read More
T. rex and its close relatives were warm-blooded like modern birds
Dinosaur metabolisms were diverse; some lineages were cold-blooded like their lizard cousins, while others were warm-blooded like their avian relatives alive today. → Read More
Elusive bronze-scaled ‘dragon’ of the deep caught on video off California coast
The highfin dragonfish is the rarest species in this deep-sea group. → Read More
What is the largest arachnid to ever live?
What's the largest arachnid ever on Earth? The answer is not so simple, say scientists. → Read More
100-million-year-old fairy shrimp reproduced without sex, rare fossils reveal
Cretaceous period fossils indicate female fairy shrimp had no need for males. → Read More
World's oldest known case of cannibalism revealed in trilobite fossils
The trilobite Redlichia rex likely chomped on its own kind. → Read More
Bloated 'alien' creature that washed ashore in Australia possibly identified
A weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discolored beast of myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week. → Read More
Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to come
Unexpected collapse sends a massive slab of ice into the ocean. → Read More
Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to come
Unexpected collapse sends a massive slab of ice into the ocean. → Read More
'Informational simplicity’ may explain why nature favors symmetry
Symmetry is so common in biology because life favors simple structures over complex ones. → Read More
Surprise! King cobra is actually a royal lineage of 4 species
The venomous snakes' royal domain extends across the Asian tropics. → Read More
Spiders hunt in packs of hundreds to swarm prey
Web vibrations help them coordinate when to strike. → Read More
9 out of 10 ticks in this Pennsylvania park carried a potentially fatal neurological virus
Pennsylvania officials spotted a worrisome concentration of ticks carrying a severe tick-borne disease in a single park. Is this an anomaly or part of a larger trend? → Read More
Watch amazing video of cockatoos that learn to play 'golf'
Goffin's Cockatoos play golf in an incredible video. This comes from an experiment exploring their ability to combine multiple objects into one tool, which may shed some light on how humans evolved to use tools. → Read More
Creepy, big-eyed cockroach discovered trapped in amber from 100 million years ago
This Cretaceous-era cockroach was active during the day and has eyes to prove it. → Read More
Dog vision: How do dogs see the world?
Dogs can only distinguish between blue and yellow hues. → Read More