Nature

New research suggests expanding oxygen-poor zones in the northeast Pacific may squeeze out tiny but vital deep-sea speci...

The familiar sight of kangaroos bounding across Australia feels timeless — but could the continent's massive, Pleistocen...

Imagine a tiny flying sampler, sipping blood and unknowingly logging the presence of dozens of animals across a landscap...

The tiny fruit of Pollia condensata dazzles with a metallic, iridescent sheen that lasts for decades. Rather than offeri...

What we toss as scraps—from beet leaves to the tops of radishes—may be a hidden resource for greener farming, human heal...

The Amazon rainforest is increasingly showing signs of a new, more extreme climate regime researchers call "hypertropica...

Wildfire smoke is more than visible haze — it carries a complex cocktail of organic gases that scientists now say has be...

Researchers exploring the Greenland Sea have discovered an exceptionally deep gas-hydrate cold seep that hosts a thrivin...

A grapefruit-sized fossil egg from China turned out to be more than a simple relic of a lost hatchling. Instead of prese...

A fossil jawbone unearthed in a cave on Hispaniola has preserved an unexpected record of insect behavior: multiple gener...

Reindeer are famous for their endurance in the Arctic, but their eyes hold a lesser-known seasonal surprise: they litera...

The Arctic has just recorded its warmest 12-month stretch since observations began, a stark signal of accelerating clima...

A tiny, mushroom-like organism that never sees sunlight: Balanophora is a flowering plant that defies expectations. Lack...

Under a high-warming scenario, the world’s glaciers could vanish at a staggering rate. New projections show that, if glo...

Deep below the Southern Ocean, explorers have found a chilling new inhabitant: a carnivorous sponge that looks like a cl...

Biologist Jon Allen quietly cares for one of the oldest ribbon worms on record — an adopted invertebrate nicknamed Baseo...

What looks like an ordinary rock can hide a lost world. In southeast Romania, a 3.5-kilogram stone used for decades as a...

Have you ever watched your dog nudge a prized chew under a sofa cushion, tuck a treat beneath a blanket, or bury a bone ...

New genetic detective work suggests the first steps toward complex, nucleated cells—ancestors of everything from amoebas...

High on the eastern slopes of the Andes, scientists have uncovered an extraordinary fossil record: nearly 18,000 dinosau...