It is as long as a tall human, and lives in a heavily populated area of the Philippines. Yet somehow…
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Birds Fuel Up on Super Foods Before Migrating
Bug-chomping songbirds have been discovered doing something remarkable before migrating south for the winter: They switch, awkwardly, to berries rich…
Horse May Be World’s Tiniest Foal
A diminutive horse born in New Hampshire could lay claim to the world record for lightweight foal. The pinto stallion…
Water Discovered on an Asteroid
Water has been spotted on an orbiting asteroid for the first time, according to a new study of a space…
Virgin birth: sharks’ secret survival trick
CAN’T find a mate? Try parthenogenesis. The type of asexual reproduction may be part of an extreme survival strategy for…
Solar Dynamics Observatory returns first images
Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has provided an astonishing new vista on our turbulent star. The first public release of images…
Hard-to-See Sea Creatures Revealed
This leggy creature may look like an octopus, but it’s actually an immature, or larval, tube anemone (picture of an…
New Species Discovered in Borneo
A lungless frog (pictured above), a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new…
11-Million-Year-Old Primate Discovered
A garbage dump in Catalonia, Spain, has just yielded an eleven-million-year-old new primate, according to the science news service SINC.…
Leaf Monkeys Track Babies by Gold Hue
It takes a village of Phayre’s leaf monkeys to raise this golden monkey infant. While they’re babies, these monkeys, Trachypithecus…