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136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
A cattle parasite changes the smell of the animals it infects, and tsetse flies carrying it showed raised activity in several odour-receptor genes alongside reduced activity in five light-sensing genes — traps baited with a three-phenol blend caught twice the share of infected flies that unbaited traps did
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (628+ words) The gene work was done on wild flies caught in a Kenyan reserve, because this species is so hard to infect in a laboratory. By Natural History · Edited by Christy Jeremia Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit The behavioural results are…...
Researchers invited 11 people to cuddle two Holstein steers at a New York sanctuary, and the animals developed a striking preference — they were far more engaged with the women than the men
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (455+ words) A surprising finding from a cuddling study challenges assumptions about which humans animals instinctively trust. Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Magnus is the extrovert. Callum needs a minute. Both are Holstein steers weighing roughly as much as a small hatchback,…...
Humpback whales can sing for up to 16 hours without stopping, and scientists have found their songs are synchronized with every dive — different themes line up with the descent, the deep-water phase and the climb back to the surface
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (483+ words) Sixteen hours of nonstop singing would wreck a human throat, a human diaphragm and probably a human marriage. Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Sixteen hours of nonstop singing would wreck a human throat, a human diaphragm and probably a human…...
There is no queen and no hive behind Xylocopa caerulea: each female excavates her own wood tunnel, packs it with bee bread of pollen and nectar, lays an egg on the store and seals the cell before starting the next
1+ week, 1+ day ago (343+ words) A blue carpenter bee working a tropical garden looks like a scrap of sky that got loose, and the temptation is to imagine a hive somewhere behind her — a colony, a queen, a comb. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin…...
An unknown human lineage interbred with our ancestors in Africa more than 50,000 years ago — and although scientists still don't know who these humans were, traces of their DNA survive in every modern population studied.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1147+ words) A new genomic method detected roughly 0.49% to 1.1% ancestry from an unidentified human population across five sampled groups. The signal points to mixing in Africa before the main out-of-Africa expansion, but it has not been matched to a fossil species. By…...
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture — dental plaque from 745 ancient humans found Europeans rarely ate them, while genetic evidence shows reduced ability to digest their exoskeletons persisted for at least 9,000 years.
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (1222+ words) Sparse insect DNA in ancient northern Eurasian dental calculus and 9,000-year-old chitinase patterns point to a deep ecological history without identifying a gene for disgust. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit Disgust can feel…...
Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting flies repeatedly failed to land — adding to evidence that the famous pattern evolved to thwart insects, not lions
2+ week, 1+ day ago (517+ words) A simple visual trick—stripes that repel insects—may explain why evolution favored one of nature's most iconic patterns over millions of years. Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit The horses in a North Somerset paddock were dressed as zebras, and…...
Emotional tears may have evolved not merely to express sadness, but to change the behaviour of the people around us — a distress signal originating in infancy that humans carried into adult social life to recruit attention, care and protection.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1418+ words) A new evolutionary account treats adult emotional tears as an infant-derived distress signal, while experiments show support effects that are real but strongly context-dependent. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit A line of moisture…...
Why 34 of 38 crickets in a dark glass tube walked away from a synthetic copy of one terpene found in a bat's snout secretions, and why the researchers still cannot say how a cricket tells a bat from a leaf
2+ week, 2+ day ago (853+ words) In a Y-shaped glass tube run in complete darkness, 44 of 47 wild-caught crickets chose the arm carrying clean air over the arm carrying bat scent, and a purchased standard of a single compound the team had found in the bat's snout…...