When a mysterious 40-foot-long creature washed up on a Florida beach in 2019, researchers gained crucial evidence for what’s now known as the Rice’s whale, whose survival is threatened by the shipping industry. ...read more
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The long-term impacts of forest lost could lead to diminishing populations, poorer diets and other consequences for some animals. ...read more
There's plenty of animals that can communicate. But true linguistic mastery in the animal kingdom is harder to pin down. ...read more
A new paper hypothesizes how the amount of dark matter could have grown exponentially in the early universe. ...read more
How planting the right trees could help prevent climate change ...read more
Breakthrough tech defines "a new kind of writing," researchers say. ...read more
A 78,000-year-old fossil found on Kenya’s coast suggests that our ancestors interred the deceased with care. ...read more