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Why we have blood types and why they matter
When my parents informed me that my blood type was A+, I felt a strange sense of pride.If A+ was the top grade in school, then surely A+ was also the most excellent of blood types – a biological mark...
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The Toxodon was so weird that Darwin thought it was "the strangest animal...
While the Galápagos finches are the most well-known part of Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle in the 1830s, the soon-to-be scientific icon was able to delight in other natural wonders during his...
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There's a fish in Indonesia that looks the same today as it did 400 million...
The Coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis) was thought to be extinct for more than 60 million years and took the science world by storm in 1938 when it was re-discovered living in South Africa. This fish...
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The evolution of life's most complex cell is sparking a fiery debate among...
When Leonid Moroz, a neuroscientist at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine, Fla., first began studying comb jellies, he was puzzled.He knew the primitive sea creatures had...
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NASA's chief scientist says we'll find aliens by 2025 — here's the most...
During a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 7 NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan had some exciting news:"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think...
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How extreme aliens living on Jupiter's water-rich moon Europa might look
The giant planet Jupiter is one of the last places humans would ever look for life beyond Earth, but the planet's enigmatic moon Europa is a different story entirely.For 20 years, astrobiologists have...
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A tiny bird flies one of the longest migrations that scientists have ever...
A little songbird known as the blackpoll warbler departs each fall from New England and eastern Canada to migrate nonstop in a direct line over the Atlantic Ocean toward South America.To track the...
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Humans are the only animals that have chins
Though you've probably never given it a second thought, your chin is something unique to modern humans.Somewhere along the evolutionary line, our species developed a chin bone while others did not. The...
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These creepy carnivorous snails with harpoon-shaped teeth hunt fish
There are some badass carnivorous cone snails who hunt fish by tethering them in place with a harpoon-shaped tooth and then injecting a venom that messes with their nervous system.Now, researchers...
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Scientists have figured out how dogs make us fall in love with them
When people call their dogs their "fur babies," they may be onto something, at least on a chemical level.Dogs that make so-called puppy eyes at their owners get a spike in the "love hormone" oxytocin—...
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Here's how humans are going to find alien life
There's more than two dozen exoplanets in our galaxy that have the potential to harbor life, not to mention the numerous other habitable worlds that could exist in the 100 billion other galaxies...
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This rare monkey was just spotted for the first time in 40 years
An African monkey thought to be extinct has been spotted again by researchers, who returned from a remote Congo forest in March with the first-ever photos of the rare red primate.Until this year,...
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Science knows a surprisingly small amount about the bizarre way frogs grow
If your garden has a pond, or you just like to keep your eyes open while out for a walk, you will be familiar with tadpoles.So familiar, in fact, that a really weird aspect of tadpole development will...
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Creepy deep-ocean 'vampire' squids live unusually long lives
No one has ever seen vampire squid mate in the wild. But new research hints that the deep-sea creatures have a reproductive strategy that sets them apart from other cephalopods.While most female squid...
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Adorable pocket shark caught for only the second time ever
A juvenile male pocket shark has been discovered, making it the second of this type of shark ever recorded, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say.The teensy...
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Why bedbugs are about to become even more horrifying
If you live in a big city, you're probably familiar — a little too familiar, perhaps — with bedbugs.As their name suggests, they start by infesting the places we sleep.Within weeks, the blood-sucking...
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Here's why the brontosaurus got its dinosaur status back
So, the name Brontosaurus is back in business.After comparing, analysing, measuring and coding an extraordinary amount of anatomical detail pertaining to diplodocid sauropods, Emanuel Tschopp and...
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7 famous people who should have been cryogenically frozen when they died
As far as medical technology goes, there's never been a better time to be alive than the present.Before antibiotics were discovered, diseases caused by bacteria (like tuberculosis, diphtheria,...
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These are the crazy nano structures that make the Glasswing butterfly's wings...
An invisible butterfly might sound like something from a fairytale, but there are butterflies with wings as transparent as panes of glass.The reason that their wings are transparent is because they...
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Many of the large animals we know and love are facing extinction, new study...
Until relatively recently, lots of different massive mammals roamed across our planet. Mastodons, mammoths, giant elk, rhinoceros-sized marsupials, sabre-toothed cats, marsupial lions, dire wolves,...
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