Category: Biology

Most of us think we know sloths. The image is iconic—furry, sleepy-eyed creatures suspended from rainforest branches, moving at the speed of molasses, digesting meals over the course of weeks,…

Anyone who’s ever flinched at an ice cube or winced through a dental drill knows the strange sensitivity of teeth. They may seem like hard, inanimate blocks of enamel, but…

They lurk along country lanes, garden borders, and untamed fields—deliciously sweet, dark gems protected by nature’s barbed wire. Anyone who has harvested wild blackberries knows the trade-off well: the juicier…

Far beneath the pink-sand beaches and pastel-colored houses of Bermuda lies a shadowy underworld few have ever seen. It is a realm of darkness and still water, of silent stone…

For decades, the story of humpback whale migration has been told like a grand, unchanging epic: colossal creatures, bloated with blubber from months of gorging on Antarctic krill, begin their…

In the sun-bleached badlands of Argentine Patagonia, where desert winds slice across ancient stone and the bones of giants sleep beneath the dust, a mystery has stirred. After more than…

Few things in human attraction spark as much curiosity and cultural fixation as male fascination with female breasts. From ancient fertility figurines carved in stone to modern media saturated with…

In the heart of Florida’s orange belt, where groves once rippled in endless rows across sun-soaked land, a silent epidemic has been slowly eroding the citrus industry from its roots.…

In the complex symphony of biological signaling, few molecules strike as many notes as prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). As a bioactive lipid derived from arachidonic acid, PGE2 plays a central role…

Somewhere deep in the Sumatran rainforest, a rustle in the undergrowth sends a female orangutan scrambling up a tree. She halts, peering down with sharp eyes, and then—she calls out.…

Every sensation you feel—whether the sharp sting of pain, the pleasurable rush of taste, or the anxious flutter of stress—is orchestrated by an invisible ensemble of molecular switches. These tiny…

In a quiet lab tucked behind the glass corridors of modern science, an international team of researchers has peered billions of years into the past—without a time machine. Their tool…

Long before the first hoofbeats echoed across the Eurasian steppes or reverberated through the plains of North America, the horse was already in motion—part of a story etched deep into…

In a remote stretch of northeastern China, ancient secrets have been hiding beneath layers of rock for over 80 million years. Now, paleontologists have cracked open a new chapter in…

In the ancient seas that once blanketed the land we now know as Canada, a bizarre creature darted through the water with swimming flaps undulating like wings, three eyes scanning…

In the tangled story of invasive species, few lizards have left a trail as disruptive—and surprising—as the charismatic tegu. Native to South America and introduced to the United States through…

For the first time in scientific history, a living tropical tree species—Dryobalanops rappa—has been discovered in fossil form. This groundbreaking discovery was made in Brunei, nestled within the lush rainforests…

In a bold step toward understanding DNA as it exists in living cells—not in the sanitized environment of a laboratory—scientists at Northwestern University have challenged a long-standing assumption about one…

In the muddy banks of a prehistoric lake in Schöningen, Germany, the whispers of ancient ingenuity have resurfaced. What at first appeared to be mere sticks buried in sediment have…