Stories by Ashleigh Papp

Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution

Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today...

May 10, 2022 — Ashleigh Papp

Animals

New Research Decodes the Sea Cow’s Hidden Language

Florida manatees are “talking” up a storm, and a team that has been recording those sounds for seven years is starting to understand the chatter.

March 30, 2022 — Ashleigh Papp

Animals

The Romantic Temptation of the Monogamous Prairie Vole

The small rodents are one of the few known monogamists in the wild—and their faithfulness was put to the test in a lab.

February 14, 2022 — Ashleigh Papp