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Study Reveals Rich Life in Japan’s Deep Trenches, Including a Mystery Animal

The imagery-led survey sets a non-destructive baseline for taxonomy, ecology, protection of trench life.

Study Captures Hot-Pink Katydid Turning Green in Days

Study Forecasts Big Rise in European Forest Damage by 2100, Even With 2°C Warming

Caterpillars Keep Complex Rhythms to ‘Speak Ant’ and Secure Care, Study Finds

Yunxian Homo Erectus Skulls Re-Dated to About 1.77 Million Years

Ice-Fishing Competitions Reveal How Social Cues Guide Human Foraging

Bristol Bay Belugas Swap Mates Across Years, Preserving Genetic Diversity

Scientists Depart for Thwaites to Probe Sea-Level Risk

Study Maps Rapid, Predictable Microbial Colonization of New Icelandic Lava

Italy Reveals Vast Alpine Dinosaur Tracksite Dating Back Over 200 Million Years

Cycads Use Infrared Heat to Lure Beetle Pollinators, Science Study Finds

PNAS Study Links Chimp Territorial Killings to Short-Term Reproductive Gains

Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced Recovered From 40,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth

Wyoming 'Mummy' Fossils Show Duck-Billed Dinosaur Had Hooves, Not Preserved Skin

Mini Backpacks Show Europe’s Largest Bats Hunt and Eat Migrating Birds in Mid-Flight

Study Shows Europe’s Largest Bat Hunts Migrating Songbirds in Mid‑Air

Plant Mimics Ants’ Distress Scent to Lure Pollinating Flies, Study Finds

Beer and Bed-Sharing Linked to Greater Mosquito Attraction in Festival Study

Male Ratfish Grow True Forehead Teeth for Mating, Study Finds

Field Data Show Tropical Prochlorococcus Declines as Oceans Top 28°C