In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal from drowning.
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Scientists are looking at layers of minerals left behind on mammoth tusks to estimate where the hulking animals spent their…
Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch.
Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome…
Every year after the full moons in late October and November, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef begins its annual spawning —…
The stream of helium trailing WASP-69b, a “Hot Jupiter,” allows astronomers to study how planets lose their atmospheres.
The specimen came from a 289 million-year-old fossil deposit and might offer clues to how skin evolved.
Researchers say the species they named Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis predated the dinosaur era’s great predator.
The National Institute on Aging may let funding lapse for a yearslong study of nearly 50,000 pet dogs, which could…
Fossil teeth reveal Gigantopithecus was doomed by a changing environment and an inflexible diet.