Animals

Animals

Let’s learn about animals that can regrow body parts

Animals that regenerate limbs, eyes and other body parts may hold clues to superhuman healing.

Animals

Analyze This: Primates may have evolved in the cold

Scientists thought the ancestor of humans and apes lived in the tropics. A new study points to a chilly location instead for primate evolution.

Animals

Animals’ personalities can affect a species’ survival

From bold foxes to shy parrots, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as key to saving species.

Animals

Brazilian monkeys offer lessons on how to return species to the wild

Efforts included letting golden lion tamarins roam free in urban U.S. parks. Restoring natural behaviors was key to their survival in the wild.

Animals

Mummies suggest a way to help reintroduce cheetahs to Arabia

DNA from Arabian cheetah remains reveals that these now-extinct populations might be replaced by rewilding close cheetah relatives from northwest Africa.

Physics

Could a person ever wield lightning as a weapon? 

From the shocking powers of electric eels to laser-guided lightning, aiming electricity is more real than it sounds.

Animals

As toddlers, chimps are major risk takers

Human kiddos are generally too closely supervised to be able to monkey around as much as young chimps. Instead, older kids — teens — are usually the bigger risk takers.

Fossils

Prehistoric ‘sea’ monster also lurked in rivers, data show

A 66-million-year-old fossil tooth turned up alongside remains of a T. rex and ancient crocodile. This shows some mosasaurs roamed into rivers.

Animals

Lions have a second roar that scientists have only just discovered

This insight from machine-learning analyses of recordings of calls in the wild might help detect where lions are declining.

Animals

Chicago’s Rat Hole? Science concludes it’s likely not from a rat

Researchers employed tools of paleontology to analyze the iconic landmark — a sidewalk critter crater made when a mystery rodent fell into wet concrete.

Animals

Is it possible to be invisible?

Fiction is full of characters with the power to vanish. But some animals have real-life ways to become nearly invisible.

Animals

RNA from mummified woolly mammoth is the oldest ever recovered

Genetic details from the animal, named Yuka, give a snapshot into its last moments alive. The mammoth had been preserved in permafrost for 40,000 years.