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Fish size themselves up in a mirror to decide if they can win a fight

Wed, 09/11/2024 - 05:00
Cleaner wrasse use their reflection to build a mental image of their body size, which they use to compare themselves to rivals before picking a fight
Categories: Fossils

Ants change the way they build nests to stop diseases spreading

Tue, 09/10/2024 - 12:05
When worker ants are exposed to a pathogenic fungus, they build nests that are more compartmentalised to reduce the risk of an epidemic
Categories: Fossils

How the hidden lives of dinosaurs are being revealed by new technology

Tue, 09/10/2024 - 11:00
From migrating sauropods and semi-aquatic predators to doting parents, palaeontologists are finally uncovering the mysteries of the lifestyles of dinosaurs
Categories: Fossils

Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed

Mon, 09/09/2024 - 11:00
X-ray videos of Japanese eels swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish have revealed how the eels can make a daring escape from being digested
Categories: Fossils

Endangered wombat's rare encounter with echidna caught on camera

Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:33
A camera trap at an Australian nature refuge has captured a boisterous interaction between a northern hairy-nosed wombat and an echidna
Categories: Fossils

Sharks leap out of the water more often than you might think

Fri, 09/06/2024 - 12:00
Breaching is a common behaviour in a wide range of sharks and rays, and it is thought to have functions related to courtship, birthing and hygiene
Categories: Fossils

Stunningly preserved pterosaur fossils reveal how they soared

Fri, 09/06/2024 - 00:01
The largest pterosaurs, ancient reptiles that were the first vertebrates to master flight, may have mostly soared while smaller ones flapped their wings, a pattern that persists in today's birds
Categories: Fossils

Even simple bacteria can anticipate the changing seasons

Thu, 09/05/2024 - 14:00
Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days are better at surviving cold conditions, showing that even simple organisms can prepare for the arrival or summer and winter
Categories: Fossils

A podcast explores how sport is drawing the line between men and women

Wed, 09/04/2024 - 13:00
The deeply researched podcast series Tested tells the stories of Namibian sprinter Christine Mboma and Kenya’s Maximila Imali, and how their early successes made their womanhood suspect to some
Categories: Fossils

New Scientist recommends eight-legged musical instrument Sonic Spider

Wed, 09/04/2024 - 13:00
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Categories: Fossils

Close-up photographs of seeds show their intricate beauty

Wed, 09/04/2024 - 13:00
These images are taken from a new book, Seeds: Time capsules of life, which explores how plant life has flourished in the past 360 million years
Categories: Fossils

Wild bees have found a surprising place to nest in cities

Tue, 09/03/2024 - 09:00
A survey found 66 species of insects making their homes in cobbled pavements on the streets of Berlin, and greater biodiversity near insect-friendly flower gardens
Categories: Fossils

Pregnant shark that disappeared may have been eaten by another shark

Tue, 09/03/2024 - 00:15
Tracking data from a pregnant porbeagle shark near Bermuda suggest it was eaten by a great white shark – a kind of predation that has never been seen before
Categories: Fossils

Marmosets seem to call each other by name

Thu, 08/29/2024 - 14:00
Marmosets are the first non-human primates shown to use personalised signifiers to refer to each other – the discovery could help us better understand how language evolved
Categories: Fossils

Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature

Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:00
High-speed camera recordings show that springtails spin at up to 368 rotations per second when they jump away from danger
Categories: Fossils

A selection of elaborate birds' nests from around the world

Wed, 08/28/2024 - 13:00
These photos showcase some of the intricately created birds' nests found in the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, home to one of the world's largest ornithological collections
Categories: Fossils

Inside NASA's lab exploring conditions for life on other worlds

Tue, 08/27/2024 - 03:00
The Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a testbed exploring how geological conditions could impact life in environments such as early Earth, Mars or the icy moons of Jupiter
Categories: Fossils

David Attenborough's latest explores the lives of an orangutan family

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 13:00
The veteran presenter adds authority to Secret Lives of Orangutans, a film about a family of endangered orangutans in Sumatra. File this new entry in his vast oeuvre under lovable but lightweight
Categories: Fossils

How shrinking populations could help to save our planet

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 13:00
Our ability to exert conscious control over our family sizes is unique – and can be transformational, says Christopher Wills
Categories: Fossils

We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 07:20
A big rethink of our planet’s early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that Earth was only a few hundred million years old when life began
Categories: Fossils

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