2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (620+ words) Captive-reared crocodiles adapted well after release, but a translocated wild crocodile showed strong homing instincts, offering new insights for conservation planning. A new study suggests that saltwater crocodiles born or raised in captivity may successfully adapt to life in the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1279+ words) Bats’ remarkable ability to withstand decades of strenuous flight while keeping infections, inflammation, and cancer in check may offer new clues to healthier human aging Bats are unusually long-lived for animals of their size. Small mammals generally burn energy quickly…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (649+ words) Africa’s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions. Their evolutionary family tree was slowly running out of new branches. A new study suggests that the long decline of animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, and their extinct…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (866+ words) A mountain of loose rock in Utah hides enough ice to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools, revealing that some of the state’s largest frozen water reserves are almost invisible from the surface. Unlike conventional glaciers, which expose broad expanses of ice,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (110+ words) A tropical warming event helped drive record snowfall and a temporary 695-billion-ton ice gain in East Antarctica without reversing long-term Antarctic ice loss....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (782+ words) A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken free from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, and scientists say even bigger breaks may be coming. Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a major breakup at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km portion…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1090+ words) Genetic research revealed four distinct gentoo penguin species, including a newly identified species from the Kerguelen Islands. Scientists warn climate change may endanger several isolated island populations. The emperor penguin, which can grow to about 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall, is the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (546+ words) Sea turtles are built for epic ocean journeys, yet some in the Galápagos rarely venture beyond their island neighborhood. Green sea turtles are the only primarily vegetarian species among the seven living sea turtles. Hatchlings eat both plants and animals,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (554+ words) Carbon released by the Industrial Revolution has left a chemical fingerprint nearly everywhere scientists looked in the North Atlantic, including waters thousands of feet below the surface. Scientists have traced carbon from fossil fuel emissions deep into the North Atlantic…...