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A tiny sea spider cleans its legs
📰 Full story: The sea spider that cleans its legs: Two new species map hidden life in the Salish Sea
Scientists found two new sea spiders. One uses tiny combs to clean itself.
🐾 CreaturesTiny bacteria in a fish’s gills?
📰 Full story: Fish gills may host bacteria that live without sunlight
Scientists found clues about tiny bacteria living on coral-reef fish gills.
🐾 CreaturesThe Penguin Group That Became Four
📰 Full story: Gentoo Penguins Were One Group on Paper, but Four Lineages in Nature
These penguins looked alike, but their body information showed four different groups.
🐾 CreaturesCells know when to keep trying
📰 Full story: How stressed cells choose: A redox signal can shift survival into cell death
A cell may fix small problems. Huge problems can make it stop safely.
🐾 CreaturesTwo new sea spiders have names
📰 Full story: Two new sea spiders found in the Salish Sea—and one has hairy legs
Scientists found two new kinds of sea spiders in the Salish Sea.
🐾 CreaturesTiny cells showed their protein-making work
📰 Full story: A frozen 3D view shows how bacteria make, move, and shape proteins
Scientists looked inside a tiny bacterium.
🐾 CreaturesA Very Old Animal Got Its Own Name
📰 Full story: The Ancient Animal Named for Two Moms Was Once Filed as Something Else
Two students looked closely at a fossil and found a surprise.
🐾 CreaturesThe twig bugs were really five kinds
📰 Full story: The egg lid that split one stick-insect story into five species
Scientists found new clues in the bugs and their eggs.
🐾 CreaturesA Computer Helper Finds Stronger Bacteria-Fighting Viruses
📰 Full story: AI Finds Phage Mutations That Made Bacteria-Infecting Viruses Up to 1 Million Times More Effective
Scientists found changes that helped special viruses attack bacteria.
🐾 CreaturesA dinosaur bone kept a healing clue
📰 Full story: A broken T. rex rib preserved a record of healing
Scotty was a T. rex skeleton with a broken rib.
🐾 CreaturesWhere Did Bats Begin?
📰 Full story: Bats May Have Begun in Europe: DNA and Fossils Redraw Their Family Tree
Scientists think the first bats may have lived in Europe.
🐾 CreaturesFish Can Follow a Friend Away from Danger
📰 Full story: A Vanishing Neighbor Can Warn a Fish School of Danger
A tiny fish can notice trouble by watching another fish.
🐾 CreaturesA tiny cat gets its own name
📰 Full story: A tiny Bolivian wild cat becomes a new species after DNA analysis
A little spotted cat in Bolivia is a separate kind.
🐾 CreaturesAI compares tiny cell jobs
📰 Full story: An AI tool compares cell jobs across 700 million years
A computer helper compares cells from different animals. It may help scientists learn about sickness.
🐾 CreaturesA tiny forest cat gets a new name
📰 Full story: A DNA clue gives Bolivia’s tiny wild cat its own name
Scientists found that one little cat belongs to a new species.
🐾 CreaturesA Sea Whale Visits a River
📰 Full story: A Humpback Whale Swam 60 Miles Up a California River
A humpback whale, a big sea whale, came into a California river.
🐾 CreaturesAn Old Fossil May Change the First Dinosaur Story
📰 Full story: A Museum Fossil May Change the Timeline of the First Dinosaurs
Scientists studied old bones and found a new clue about early dinosaurs.
🐾 CreaturesA Little Cat Gets a Brand-New Name
📰 Full story: A Tiny Bolivian Wild Cat Is a New Species After More Than 100 Years
A tiny wild cat in Bolivia was found to be a new kind of cat.
🐾 CreaturesDogs Helped Find the Hiding Weasels
📰 Full story: When No Photo Does Not Mean No Weasel: Dogs Guide Cameras in Georgia
The dogs helped cameras look in better places.
🐾 CreaturesA Very Old Crocodile Relative Had a Stripy Tail
📰 Full story: Ultraviolet Light Finds a Possible Striped Tail in a 125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Relative
Special light helped scientists see hidden marks in its fossil.
🐾 CreaturesMany Frog Name Places Need Help
📰 Full story: Most of Ecuador’s Amphibian Type Localities Are Outside Protected Areas
In Ecuador, a South American country, many places tied to frog names lack protection.
🐾 CreaturesA Coral Garden Was Alive Under Benin’s Sea
📰 Full story: A Coral Community Thought Dead for 60 Years Is Alive Off Benin
People thought the corals were gone. A camera found living corals instead.
🐾 CreaturesA Dinosaur’s Poop Hid a Feather
📰 Full story: The Fossil Poop That Preserved a Feather—and a Clue to Bird Survival
A very old poop-rock held a bird feather.
🐾 CreaturesA Very Chunky Sea Animal
📰 Full story: Two Rare Fossils Reveal a Surprisingly Chunky Jurassic Squid Relative
A very old sea animal left two unusual fossils.
🐾 CreaturesDNA closes a tiny zipper
📰 Full story: How can negatively charged DNA come together? A molecular mystery gets an image
Two tiny DNA pieces usually stay apart. Metal helpers brought them together.
🐾 CreaturesA Dinosaur Was Under the Building Work
📰 Full story: A New Dinosaur Found Beneath a Brazilian Construction Site
People found very old dinosaur bones under a building site in Brazil.
🐾 CreaturesThe Little Black Flower That Hides
📰 Full story: Thailand’s Black Devil Flower Lives Beneath Fallen Leaves
A tiny new flower was found hiding under leaves in Thailand.
🐾 CreaturesWhy Do the Rats Come Back?
📰 Full story: Why Do the Predators Come Back? New Zealand Study Finds Timing Matters
Rats can return after poison bait makes them fewer.
🐾 CreaturesThe Mud at the Bottom Remembers
📰 Full story: Lake-Bottom DNA Reconstructs 1,000 Years of Human and Wild Life
Tiny clues in lake mud told a very old story.
🐾 CreaturesLet’s Find the Tiny Bugs in Tropical Forests
📰 Full story: Tropical Insects Are Being Missed. Conservation Needs a New Approach
Many tiny bugs live in warm forests. People have not found them all yet.
🐾 CreaturesWhen people come near, animals may change places
📰 Full story: Animals Notice More Than Roads: People Nearby Can Change Where They Live
Animals notice people nearby. They may change where they go.
🐾 CreaturesA Computer Finds Changes in Flower Seasons
📰 Full story: Eight Million Plant Specimens Show That Flowering Times Are Drifting
A computer found small changes in when flowers open.
🐾 CreaturesTwo tiny cave-water animals
📰 Full story: Two New Eyeless Crustaceans Found in Cave Waters of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands
Two new little animals were found in dark water in Japan.
🐾 CreaturesA Tiny Food Store in Nature
📰 Full story: Animals May Have Been Eating Nature’s Own Plastic for Hundreds of Millions of Years
Animals may use a small food store made by microbes.
🐾 CreaturesA clue that helps wheat fight a bug
📰 Full story: A wheat gene that resists Hessian fly larvae is found after 50 years
Scientists found a tiny instruction inside wheat.
🐾 CreaturesA tiny dinosaur-bone clue
📰 Full story: Traces of collagen reported in a 66-million-year-old dinosaur bone
A very old dinosaur bone may have kept a tiny body piece.
🐾 CreaturesA little lizard with a dragon name
📰 Full story: New ‘horned dragon’ lizard named after a TV fantasy dragon
A new lizard was found in Thailand’s mountain forest.
🐾 CreaturesThe little coffee frog
📰 Full story: A Tiny Night Frog Found Living Among Costa Rica’s Coffee Plants
A new frog was found near coffee plants.
🐾 CreaturesA Plant Found Again After 90 Years
📰 Full story: A Plant Found Nowhere Else on Earth Reappears After 90 Years
A plant from one island was found again after 90 years.
🐾 CreaturesThe Fossil That Shows Who Ate Whom
📰 Full story: A 100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Captures a Three-Level Sea Food Chain
Scientists found a very old bone.
🐾 CreaturesZoo Lions Get a Whole Animal to Eat
📰 Full story: Zoo Lions Show More Wild-Like Behavior When Fed Whole Carcasses
Zoo lions got to eat a whole animal.
🐾 CreaturesBirds and Whales Sing Like Us
📰 Full story: Birdsong and Whale Song Share Patterns Found in Human Language
Birds and whales sing songs. Their songs are a bit like our words.
🐾 CreaturesA Toad From Long Ago, Found in Sticky Tar
📰 Full story: New Ice Age Toad Species Found in La Brea Tar Pits Fossils
A little toad got stuck in gooey tar long, long ago.
🐾 CreaturesTeeth Marks on Old Dinosaur Bones
📰 Full story: Bite Marks on 66-Million-Year-Old Bones May Point to T. rex
Scientists found bite marks on very old dinosaur bones.
🐾 CreaturesSuper Old Rocks Show Where Animals Began
📰 Full story: 567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Push Back the Dawn of Animal Life by Up to 10 Million Years
Old rocks in Canada show some of the very first animals.
🐾 CreaturesThe Beavers Who Fell From the Sky
📰 Full story: In 1948, Beavers Parachuted Out of Airplanes Over Idaho — and the Forest Still Shows It
Long ago, beavers floated down from airplanes.
🐾 CreaturesAn Old Pangolin Turns Out to Be Brand New
📰 Full story: A 190-Year-Old Museum Specimen Turns Out to Be a New Species
A very old pangolin was actually a brand new kind.
🐾 CreaturesThe Oyster Puzzle Is Solved
📰 Full story: A 176-Year Oyster Mystery Is Finally Solved
A very old question about oysters got its answer.
🐾 CreaturesTiny Threads Under the Ground Help Trees Make Friends
📰 Full story: Scientists Capture 3D Images of Underground Fungal Networks Without Disturbing Roots
Under the dirt, tiny fungus threads help plants get water.
🐾 CreaturesA snake ate a spiky animal and died
📰 Full story: A Python Died After Swallowing a Porcupine Whole, Quills and All
A big snake ate a spiky porcupine. The spikes hurt the snake so much it died.
🐾 CreaturesSecret Ancestors Hiding Inside You
📰 Full story: Two Mysterious 'Ghost' Ancestors Found Hidden in Human DNA
Long ago, there were people with no name at all.
🐾 CreaturesA Fish Hiding in a Dark Cave
📰 Full story: New Fish Species Found in an Alabama Cave, Believed to Be Among the World's Rarest
People found a new fish in a cave. Nobody knew it was there.
🐾 CreaturesSame Flower, Different Trick to Beat the Heat
📰 Full story: 150 Years After Darwin's Finches, Galápagos Plants Reveal Evolution Repeating Itself
Flowers on faraway islands found different ways to stay cool.
🐾 CreaturesThe Bone Box Had a Secret
📰 Full story: A Fossil Forgotten for 80 Years Turns Out to Be a New Predator
An old bone was a brand-new animal all along.