nature

They were tiny, fragile, and swept up in something much larger than themselves. A fresh look at a Late Jurassic fossil b...

What happens when a piece of continental crust that should be fragile refuses to break? In northern Kenya and southern E...

Imagine looking out from 500 meters up and spotting the slightest movement on the ground. Sharp, relentless vision—that'...

The Arctic is warming far faster than the global average, and scientists are now linking extreme weather events to a wid...

Starfish, or sea stars, move across complex seafloors with remarkable poise — climbing rocks, slipping over sand, and ev...

Every winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) performs a biological feat that reads like science fiction: it shrinks it...

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...