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Evolution

This image shows an artist's reconstruction of Gaiasia jennyae. Gabriel Lio has illustrated this newly discovered stem tetrapod species from Namibia. The creature was an apex predator that lived in the wetland areas of southern Gondwana approximately 280 million years ago.

Gondwana’s Ultimate Hunter Rewrites Early Animal Evolution

Categories Life & Non-humans
Artist’s rendering of Gaiasia jennyae.

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

Categories Life & Non-humans
Ammonites basking under the Late Cretaceous sun. Artwork by Callum Pursall (@cpursall on X)

Ammonites Went Out With a Bang, Challenging Previous Theories

Categories Life & Non-humans
The best dads in the primate world? Owl monkey fathers take on the role of primary caregiver and only hand their babies back to their female partners for nursing.

Math Says Male Mammals Don’t Breastfeed to Protect Offspring from Harmful Microbes

Categories Life & Non-humans
Depiction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, with two Probrachylophosaurus passing by in the background.

New Dinosaur with Bizarre Horns Discovered in Montana

Categories Life & Non-humans
N. savoryi

Fish Parents Use Physical Punishment to Get Kids to Help

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
Reconstruction of the earliest sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere: Nothosaurs swimming along the ancient southern polar coast, now part of New Zealand, around 246 million years ago. Artwork by Stavros Kundromichalis.

Ancient Sea Reptile Fossil Discovered in New Zealand Rewrites Evolutionary History

Categories Life & Non-humans
Artist reconstruction of Musankwa sanyatiensis, walking in Triassic shallow waters past a metoposaur.

New Dinosaur Species Discovered on the Shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe

Categories Life & Non-humans
Copulating bedbugs

New findings on fertility: Sperm can adapt to sexually transmitted microbes

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
Vapourer moth caterpillar being measured with the laser Doppler vibrometer

Caterpillars can detect their predators by the static electricity they emit

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics
Probiscus monkey family

Proboscis Monkeys’ Large Noses Attract the Ladies

Categories Life & Non-humans
Painting of vague life forms

The Weakening Pulse of Life

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baby chick

Male Chicks Play More Than Females, Hinting at Evolutionary Benefits of Play

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
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