How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers understand life on other planets.

Learn the surprising similarities between the sleep cycles of octopuses and humans, and how an octopus’ skin may reveal what they dream about.

Learn how 457 Portuguese state menus reveal a century of political messaging, alliance-building, and quiet diplomatic strategy.

Learn more about why dogs sigh, and how it likely isn’t because they’re disappointed or upset with you.

Like wolves that once became dogs, trash pandas appear to be adapting anatomically to life alongside humans, slowly stepping toward domestication.

Learn about the enduring conflict between bumblebees and argentine ants, culminating in wars over nectar.

Learn what makes Comet 3I/Atlas, the third interstellar object ever observed entering into our solar system, so significant for space research.

Learn more about two spider species that use their webs to create complex spider doppelgängers for protection from large predators.

Learn more about turkeys and their strict dominance hierarchies, which may be leading to some turkey-human pecking order conflicts.

Learn how residue trapped inside a Xerxes-era alabaster jar revealed a long-overlooked tradition of opium in ancient Egypt.

Meet Tainrakuasuchus Bellator, crocodile’s earliest known relative, equipped with fierce teeth and tough armor, making him a predator from the start.

Learn more about the fat molecules researchers discovered in deep-sea mud volcanoes and the clues they offer to microbial adaptations.

Learn why curious narwhals are acting like the cats of the sea, bumping and scratching against underwater listening devices.

Learn more about Earth’s shifting mantle pushed continental material into distant volcanoes.

Learn more about the images advanced telescopes could take of black holes and how they could back up Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Learn more about the orcas seen attacking white sharks in the Gulf of California and why they seem to go for the liver.

Learn how NASA’s TESS and ESA’s Gaia missions helped astronomers uncover thousands of hidden stars, revealing that the Pleiades are 20 times larger than previously believed.

Learn about the new method for dating fossil sites that measures isotopes in calcified dinosaur eggshells.

Learn how Hawaiian monk seals produce 25 distinct underwater calls, and may even combine them to communicate.

Learn how to catch the 2025 Leonid meteor shower this November, and why this particular shower holds a legendary place in skywatching history.

Learn more about the surprisingly well-preserved fossilized dinosaur egg uncovered in South America and what it could tell us about dinosaur nesting and bird evolution.

Discover how tracing space dust in Arctic seafloor sediment can help us understand how ice coverage changed over millennia, without the need for satellites.

Learn how a small section in Neanderthals' DNA gave them a lower jaw that was much larger than human jaws. 

Learn how coiled optic nerves, unlike any seen in other reptiles, give chameleons their extraordinary field of view.