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'They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts3 Comments -
'Animals were imprisoned in jails where humans were incarcerated': The bizarre trials of the Late Middle Ages — and surprising lack of criminal cats3 Comments -
'We were being bullied in our own home': How 'authoritarian' HOAs are contributing to the insect apocalypse3 Comments
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Rare armored dinosaur found in Japan may have ancestors that migrated across a land bridge 100 million years agoThe newly described dinosaur is only the third nodosaurid fossil found in Asia. Researchers say its ancestors may have migrated from North America.
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Earth's first bats didn't come from where we thought, landmark genetic study revealsIn the largest study of its kind to date, researchers compiled data from 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils to rewrite the bat family tree and determine where these animals first evolved.
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Scientists name a new cat species for the first time in over a centuryThe South American tiger cat is not one species but five distinct species, a new study finds.
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Scientists finally figured out the temperature of T. rex's blood — and it was as hot as oursA tooth analysis has revealed that the king of the dinosaurs was as warm-blooded as a human or an elephant.
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'It is extremely rare to witness': Scientists record humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footageResearchers in Australia captured footage of a female humpback whale repeatedly diving to make eye contact with her stillborn calf and lay next to its body on the seafloor.
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Fossils of iconic long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus found in Europe for first time — and it may have traveled there via land bridgeFossils of the long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus have been discovered in Spain, marking the first time remains of this iconic Jurassic-period dino have been found outside the U.S.
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Why do cats lick each other?Life's Little Mysteries Cats lick each other for multiple reasons, and some are more mysterious than others.
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'Oddly shaped rock' unearthed in California turns out to be 'immaculate' mastodon molarA field survey in San Mateo County, California, has revealed the fossilized tooth of an adult Pacific mastodon, an ice-age giant that was probably native to the West Coast.
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Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern PacificA rare sighting of a bigfin squid near an underwater mountain off California is the first confirmed live observation of the bizarre animal in the northeastern Pacific, researchers say.
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