Scientists have collected ancient RNA from mammoth samples up to 52,000 years old. Learn how they can use that RNA to indicate what happened to the mammoth as it took its last breaths.

Learn more about how scientists uncovered an unlikely community of arachnids in Europe’s Sulfur Cave and why these spiders usually don’t live together.

Learn how archaeologists discovered a woman-and-goose carving that predates the Neolithic and offers new clues to ancient symbolism.

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

Learn more about the prehistoric crocodile species that may have hunted prey like modern-day leopards, from the trees rather than the water.

Learn more about how C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) looked as though it had passed its perihelion without fragmenting, but now it seems like it's no longer intact.

Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past.

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.