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Small Steps: World Summit delegates wrangle over eco-friendly future
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Cancer Causer? Researchers zero in on leukemia risks
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Another Polio? Alarming West Nile fever risks emerge
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Iron Cooking Pots Help Combat Malnutrition
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Lawn Agent Cues Embryo Shortfall: Herbicide weeds out mice in the womb
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Less Crying in the Kitchen: Tasty, tearfree onions on the horizon
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Air-Pollution Pileup: Mediterranean endures emissions from afar
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Federal Government Launches Organic Standards
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Saber-toothed cats were fierce and family-oriented
The adolescent saber-toothed cat on a summertime hunt realized too late that she had made a terrible miscalculation. Already the size of a modern-day tiger, with huge canine teeth, she had crept...
View ArticleThis early sauropod went from walking on four legs to two as it grew
Most long-necked sauropods lumbered on four legs all their lives to support their titanic bulk. But an early relative of such behemoths as Brachiosaurus made the unusual transition from walking on...
View ArticleFossils reveal saber-toothed cats may have pierced rivals’ skulls
Saber-toothed cats may sometimes have wielded their formidable canine teeth as deadly weapons to puncture the skulls of rival cats. It was already suspected that Smilodon cats used their huge canines...
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Remarkable fossils capture mammals’ recovery after the dino-killing asteroid
Understanding how life rebounded after an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, which wiped out up to 75 percent of Earth’s species and ended the dinosaurs’ reign, has been hard. Fossils from the...
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Australian fires have incinerated the habitats of up to 100 threatened species
Until last week, the Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo was one of Australia’s conservation success stories. Thanks to a recovery program that began in 1995, its wild population increased from 150...
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A squid fossil offers a rare record of pterosaur feeding behavior
A fossil of a squid with a pterosaur tooth embedded in it offers extraordinary evidence of a 150-million-year-old battle at sea. While many pterosaur fossils containing fish scales and bones in their...
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Will Australia’s forests bounce back after devastating fires?
Some of the world’s most ancient rainforests lie in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales. Continually wet since the time of the dinosaurs, these forests once covered the supercontinent...
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The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its most widespread bleaching ever recorded
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is currently experiencing its third mass bleaching in just five years — and it is the most widespread bleaching event ever recorded. Results from aerial surveys...
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Dancing peacock spiders turned an arachnophobe into an arachnologist
Joseph Schubert spends hours at a time lying in the dirt of the Australian outback watching for tiny flickers in the sparse, ground-hugging foliage. The 22-year-old arachnologist is searching for...
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Deep caves are a rich source of dinosaur prints for this paleontologist
Crawling through tight underground passages in southern France, paleontologist Jean-David Moreau and his colleagues have to descend 500 meters below the surface to reach the only known footprints of...
View ArticleA newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders
The fossil of a chicken-sized, meat eater from Brazil that had a mane of fluffy filaments and a pair of stiff, ribbon-like streamers emerging from both shoulders is the first dinosaur with feathers...
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A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species
When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find. Fifteen years ago, the malacologist — or mollusk scientist — with the...
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