While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...
For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...
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The first vertebrates to reach the moon were Soviet tortoises, Zond 5, the 1968 lunar flyby, and the secret biology mission
In September 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 mission looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth with two tortoises and a hidden biological payload, a quiet first in the lunar race. What came ...
An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.
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Mass extinction helped jawed vertebrates rise, study finds
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...
The Outside Story shows how turtles have the capacity to withstand freezing temperatures in winter, some by freezing ...
When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...
A team of scientists has uncovered a new species of worm-like caecilian from the northern Western Ghats. The new species, ...
Time was when only five species of vertebrates were known to use tools. There was man, of course. Chimpanzees used rocks to break open hard-shelled food, sticks to feed on termites and ants, and ...
The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...
This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008 edition of the. The battle continues for Native Americans who ...
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