
Meet the Bat Woman and Bat Man of India
They sealed their love with dead bats. Now these researchers are on a mission to save India’s endangered chiropteran species together.

Meet the Bat Woman and Bat Man of India
They sealed their love with dead bats. Now these researchers are on a mission to save India’s endangered chiropteran species together.

Kids’ Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World’s Oldest Art
Ice age impressions in limestone show that human ancestors inhabited the area


During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities
The rodents’ personalities may help them to secure territory and avoid prey.

When Lord Kelvin Nearly Killed Darwin’s Theory
The eminent 19th-century physicist argued—wrongly, it turned out—that Earth wasn’t old enough to have let natural selection play out

These Baby Bats, like Us, Were Born to Babble
The greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do.

The Story of Us

How Did Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans Learn to Count?
Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention

The Secret behind Songbirds’ Magnetic Migratory Sense
A molecule found in the retinas of European robins seems to be able to sense weak magnetic fields, such as that of Earth, after it is exposed to light.

Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats’ Radar
New research finds they fly around on noise-cancelling wings

Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy
As museums reopen let’s introduce ourselves, and our children, to the original Black ancestors of all human beings

Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water
We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it

Searching 230-Million-Year-Old Poop, Scientists Find a New Beetle
A new species emerged from three-dimensional x-rays of droppings left by a close dinosaur relative