In terms of biological aging, the body appears to shift gears three times during our lifetime, 2019 research suggests, with 34 years, 60 years and 78 years as key thresholds. In other …
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Life was trying, but it wasn’t working. As the late Devonian period progressed, more and more living things went extinct, culminating in one of the largest mass extinction events our planet has …
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Make a caramel crocodile. Take her head and pull her until her neck extends a good few feet from her body. If you squint, this could be what a strange looking Triassic …
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Finding out when the first human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, as it was such an important evolutionary step. Surprisingly, the projected date of …
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What do humans have that separates us from non-human primates, our closest living relatives? One of the biggest differentiators, scientifically speaking, is the size of our much larger brains, and now, we’ve …
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The flu vaccine is not the same as the COVID-19 vaccine. If it were, the world would be in a very different place right now. Still, a new study published by health …
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They are among the largest and strangest structures on Earth – huge and mysterious patches of dense rock that lurk deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. There are two …
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Sperm whales taught each other to avoid harpoons after it began hunting them 200 years ago, according to a new study. Released by the Royal Society on Wednesday, the research was based …
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Mammalian studies have shown that ‘memories’ of various environmental effects, such as diet, weight, and stress, are passed down from parent to child, despite the fact that these states are not encoded …
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A small-eyed shark circling its prey is a classic scene known to many ocean lovers. Except this captivating circular behavior isn’t all that it seems, according to a new study that has …
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