What Are You Looking At? Is Gaze-Following Uniquely Human?
Imagine that you walk into a room, where three people are sitting, facing you. Their faces are oriented towards you, but all three of them have their eyes directed towards the left side of the room.
Fake Jewels: Male Spiders Give Worthless Gifts to Entice Females
In many animals, males give females a gift in the hope of getting to mate with her. This might sound overly simplistic, but this really can be how it happens.
Diving Birds Have 45 Percent Fewer Viable Babies after Oil Spill
A study of colonies of a diving bird on the Spanish coast shows the lingering effect during at least the first 10 years after the 2002 Prestige disaster
New Species of Peacock Spider has Leopard Spots and Cat-like Moves
This is my second post in a week featuring spiders doing undeniably adorable things - dancing and cartwheels. It's as if spiders know they have a reputation problem and have launched some kind of secret PR campaign to highlight their cuter, less-likely-to-give-you-skin-rot members.
Modern Birds Evolved before the Dinosaurs Died
Modern birds, long thought to have arisen only after the dinosaurs perished, turn out to have lived alongside them
Dinosaur Feathers Came before Birds and Flight
A long-cherished view of how and why feathers evolved has now been overturned
Dinosaur Eggs Found in Gobi Desert
Mongolia's Gobi Desert contains one of the richest assemblages of dinosaur remains ever found. Paleontologists are uncovering much of the region's history
Fieldwork: Tiny Bones to Pick
Paleontologists brave wildfires, parasites and scorching temperatures in search of ancient mammal fossils
T. Rex Had a Social Life
By analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosaurs
Excavations Reveal a Surprising Mix of Dinosaurs from Lost Continent
The American West once harbored multiple communities of dinosaurs simultaneously—a revelation that has scientists scrambling to understand how the land could have supported so many behemoths
Forget T. Rex: Long-Necked Dinosaurs Ruled the Planet
The long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods, once seen as icons of extinction, thrived for millions of years around the world
Bees Have Small Brains But Big Ideas
Bees understand abstract relations despite lacking the brain areas thought necessary