
Crocodylomorphs: Better Than Dinosaurs and Mammals Combined
Crocodiles, alligators and gharials are the modern members of a far grander, far more diverse clade of archosaurian reptiles termed Crocodylomorpha.

Crocodylomorphs: Better Than Dinosaurs and Mammals Combined
Crocodiles, alligators and gharials are the modern members of a far grander, far more diverse clade of archosaurian reptiles termed Crocodylomorpha.

California Chrome's Genes May Be Key to Race for Triple Crown
California Chrome lacks a prestigious pedigree, but bears genes that make him born to run


Models salamanders, in a cave
While on a family holiday recently I visited Dan yr Ogof, the famous National Show Cave for Wales. Besides being interesting for the expected geological and speleological reasons, Dan yr Ogof is set within landscaped gardens that, bizarrely, feature one of Europe's largest `dinosaur parks'.

3 New Species of Weird, Endangered Fish Discovered in India, U.S and Colombia
“It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.”—Warren Ellis You can find some pretty weird things when you go poking around in holes in remote parts of the globe.

Lyme Disease’s Possible Bacterial Predecessor Found in Ancient Tick
A juvenile tick trapped in a 15-million- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains a bacterium that could be the oldest documented ancestor of the microbe that causes Lyme disease

Big-Eared Bat, Once Feared Extinct, Rediscovered after 120 Years
Sometimes research into one question reveals the answer to another. In July 2012 Catherine Hughes and Julie Broken-Brow, students at the University of Queensland in Australia, were in Papua New Guinea studying how the region’s tiny microbats responded to sustainable logging of their forest homes.

Evolution Sparks Silence of the Crickets
Males on two Hawaiian islands simultaneously went mute in just a few years to avoid a parasite

Vision Involves a Bit of Hearing, Too
Researchers could tell what sounds blindfolded volunters were hearing by analyzing activity in their visual cortexes. Christie Nicholson reports

Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch
The feat is a landmark achievement in synthetic biology

ID’ing a Skull Just Got Easier
CT scans may soon link human remains to missing persons

Bees Living in Cities Are Building Their Homes with Plastic
It’s the first documentation of insects incorporating plastic trash into nests

Dinosaurs Offer a Rich Field for Study of the Human Era
Yesterday's big reptiles can help us figure out how the human era is shaping up