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Ball's Pyramid.

Scientists Want to Make Sure They're Breeding the Right Giant Stick Insects

DNA says that even though they look different, the bugs from two different islands are one and the same.

Kelsey Kennedy October 6, 2017

Six-year-old Leonard Schuster's foot in 1896. One suspects he struggled to keep still.

31 days of halloween

The Existential Horror Created by the First X-Ray Images

"I have seen my death!"

Kelsey Kennedy October 5, 2017

The only known specimen of the Liberian Greenbul.

The Birds and Beasts That May Have Never Actually Existed

Occasionally it's hard to know what should be its own species.

Natasha Frost October 5, 2017

The detailed image of the storm used by scientists, from the book <em>Seikai</em>.

Japanese Scientists Turn Literary Detectives to Study a 1770 Magnetic Storm

They think it might have been the largest ever seen.

Natasha Frost October 4, 2017

The common spreadwing, one of the dragonflies included in the study.

Scientists Have Dug Through Dragonfly Droppings to Figure Out What They Eat

Wait, no one knew exactly what dragonflies eat?

Kelsey Kennedy October 3, 2017

The small, bright streak on the lower left was part of the Phoenicid meteor shower in December 2014.

The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Comet

The key to solving the puzzle was meteor showers.

Kelsey Kennedy October 2, 2017

A caravan of wild camels in the outback.

Giant, Introduced Herbivores Could Be Helping ‘Rewild’ the World

In the anthropocene, maybe feral camels, wild donkeys, and cocaine hippos aren't a bad thing.

Natasha Frost October 2, 2017

Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave.

Broadstone, England

Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

Just stay clear of their claws.

A Czech Brewery's Newest Employees Are 5 Crayfish

Changes in their behavior tell brewers whether their water is clean enough.

Kelsey Kennedy September 29, 2017

Is Mother Nature's ultimate storage device the future of digital music?

Which Two Songs Are the First to Be Encoded Into the Fabric of Life?

Advances in synthetic DNA are offering a way to preserve music forever, like a fly in amber.

Natasha Frost September 29, 2017

The notebooks were deteriorating fast.

Forgotten Notebooks Chronicled the Lives of Congolese Trees for 20 Years

The data could help biologists understand how climate change is affecting forests.

Sarah Laskow September 28, 2017

Two thylacines at the Washington, D.C., National Zoo around 1904.

Why Did the Tasmanian Tiger Disappear From Mainland Australia 3,000 Years Ago?

Climate may have played a bigger role than previously thought.

Kelsey Kennedy September 28, 2017

A paleoartist's impression of saber-toothed cats.

Saber-Toothed Kittens Were Really, Really Strong

A new study sheds light on how these extinct felines attacked.

Natasha Frost September 28, 2017

The graphite was found in this area of Labrador.

Found: Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth, Dating Back 3.95 Billion Years

The planet itself is 4.5 billion years old.

Sarah Laskow September 28, 2017

The view from the deck of the ship <em>JOIDES Resolution</em> while it drills a core sample.

Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand Earth's Eighth Continent, Zealandia

It wasn't always under all that water.

Kelsey Kennedy September 27, 2017

An Eel-Inspired Robot Is Scientists' Newest Pollution-Sniffer

It swims, it slithers, and it samples.

Kelsey Kennedy September 27, 2017

An illustration of the new species, named <em>Uromys vika</em> after its local name.

A Giant, 'Coconut Eating' Rat Has Been Discovered in the Solomon Islands

Four times the size of the biggest subway-dweller.

Natasha Frost September 27, 2017

The observatory in winter.

Meyrueis, France

Mont Aigoual Weather Station

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.