Latest Biology News & Discoveries

Ancient teeth show Lebanon stayed wooded for at least 300,000 years

The woolly rhinoceros kept more of its genetic diversity in temperate Eurasia than in the Ice Age north

Diplodocus fossils in Spain extend the dinosaur’s known range beyond North America

The biggest Devonian fish had a jaw built to fracture prey beyond its mouth’s reach

Archosauromorphs exploded into new species after the end-Permian extinction, then their speciation steadily slowed

Four 1-meter footprints from 66.5 million years ago may be the first trackway left by an adult T. rex

This half-billion-year-old Charnia frond was buried in a sediment flow instead of flattened on the seafloor

Luminescence dating places South Dakota’s Mammoth Site between 232,000 and 160,000 years old

Wyoteuthis was a chunky belemnite that survived millions of years after its relatives vanished

The first known Denisovan forearm bone dates back 167,000 years in China

The extinct “American cheetah” lived in the Arctic—and ate a surprising amount of aquatic food

The thylacine had a wolf-like skull that no living predator can truly match

One Cozumel raccoon watched her sister make paper balls, then learned to make them herself

Early insects spent millions of years adapting to life between water and land

165 million years ago, some katydid relatives may have called above the range of human hearing

Seven shark species once lived in the tropical sea covering Egypt’s Western Desert

Little red dots may sit inside compact galaxies weighing 1 billion Suns

Lab-grown brain cells kept maturing for seven years and retained their developmental history

Lab-grown brain tissue takes on distinct front and back identities like the developing human cortex

For endangered Chinook salmon, the first 15 days may determine who survives

AI model decodes a DNA sequence found in about 60% of human genes

Large herbivores were not dying faster — they were evolving into new species more slowly

The human birth canal may have evolved more for pelvic floor stability than efficient walking

Maternal-age effects did not accumulate across generations, but they took opposite paths in two rotifer strains

Australopithecus and Paranthropus may belong inside a much larger Homo

Birds add fresh greenery to their nests, but scientists still cannot explain why it helps their young

Archaeopteryx may have needed two or three jumps to take flight

The modern human male pelvis may be the evolutionary outlier, not the Neanderthal pelvis

Sooty mangabeys bend the middle of their feet nearly as much as chimpanzees bend their ankles while climbing

Giant crocodilians left bite marks on 1,800-kilogram mammals 12 million years ago