Fat Bear Week is the largest tradition of October Month and 2020 will be six years in succession. There is...
Life on Earth is, as far as we know, an extremely rare occurrence in the universe. It is arguably one of the most astounding and beautiful...
Scientists discovered and began using antibiotics to treat polio in 1928. A game-changer for medicine, the drugs have since evolved to treat a plethora of illnesses,...
Entombed in amber during the Cretaceous period, and hidden away in a collection for decades, sperm’s evolutionary grandfather was patiently waiting for scientists to discover it....
Some of the strangest discoveries from ancient history are being found in the most surprising places. As if finding a mummified dog or ancient aquatic megapredator...
Across the globe, people’s social lives have been shaken up by Covid-19 — to put it lightly. Forced to live closer together (or further apart) than...
A horrifying viral video raises questions — and fears — about a “snake” that has gone where no reptile should venture: into a person’s mouth. The story,...
For millions of years, elephant-like creatures called mastodons roamed across the Earth, before disappearing 100,000 years ago. Their sudden drop off the face of the planet...
A surprising discovery has rewritten how cats become house pets, while unexpected and rapid evolution is making red foxes more like dogs. In short: an animal’s...
New research has uncovered the secret side-gig of a 3.2 billion-year-old class of enzymes, called nitrogenase. Scientists long believed that the primary function of these enzymes...