Recently reported research demonstrates how astonishingly helpful scales are to fish—such as the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), whose scales blend...

An amazing abundance of life can be found in the strangest places—such as the backs of turtles. It was previously known that an array of life was...

Good news is always welcome. So, it’s good to learn of another conservation comeback. This time it’s the red kite happily soaring in Great...

A new discovery of a foot-long marine turtle fossil was announced in central Bavaria, southern Germany.¹ The species, dubbed Solnhofia parsoni,...

In 2021, a fossil of an evidently beautiful bird the size of a bluejay was unearthed from sedimentary deposits in northeastern China. The bird—named...

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to discover a gas giant in another...