Latest Biology News & Discoveries

The extinct “American cheetah” lived in the Arctic—and ate a surprising amount of aquatic food

The thylacine had a wolf-like skull that no living predator can truly match

One Cozumel raccoon watched her sister make paper balls, then learned to make them herself

Early insects spent millions of years adapting to life between water and land

165 million years ago, some katydid relatives may have called above the range of human hearing

Seven shark species once lived in the tropical sea covering Egypt’s Western Desert

Little red dots may sit inside compact galaxies weighing 1 billion Suns

Lab-grown brain cells kept maturing for seven years and retained their developmental history

Lab-grown brain tissue takes on distinct front and back identities like the developing human cortex

For endangered Chinook salmon, the first 15 days may determine who survives

AI model decodes a DNA sequence found in about 60% of human genes

Large herbivores were not dying faster — they were evolving into new species more slowly

The human birth canal may have evolved more for pelvic floor stability than efficient walking

Maternal-age effects did not accumulate across generations, but they took opposite paths in two rotifer strains

Australopithecus and Paranthropus may belong inside a much larger Homo

Birds add fresh greenery to their nests, but scientists still cannot explain why it helps their young

Archaeopteryx may have needed two or three jumps to take flight

The modern human male pelvis may be the evolutionary outlier, not the Neanderthal pelvis

Sooty mangabeys bend the middle of their feet nearly as much as chimpanzees bend their ankles while climbing

Giant crocodilians left bite marks on 1,800-kilogram mammals 12 million years ago

This Cretaceous beetle had antennae unlike any known beetle, living or fossil

Pacific reefs once supported 20 times more sharks than Caribbean reefs in Panama

Ancient Wyoming forests opened up as heat and drying stressed trees 56 million years ago

Europe’s hyaenodonts did not disappear when rival predators expanded—they survived for millions of years

Blood mixed with lime may have helped ancient Chinese rock art survive for 2,000 years

Chiniquodon gave birth to live young 236 million years ago, fossil bones suggest

Dark matter may turn into gravitons that become light across the cosmic web

Vision, not the frontal lobe, drove the biggest expansion of the primate brain

Long-overlooked museum fossils uncovered an extinct toad that disappeared as Southern California’s climate changed

A black hole’s brightest outburst ended with a powerful cool wind that may have carried away as much matter as the black hole could swallow