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Byline: Kate Golembiewski Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may never visit. Around much of the planet, an aquatic [...]

Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may never visit. Around much of the planet, an aquatic mystery leaves scientists [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski An analysis of elephant calls using an artificial intelligence tool suggests that the animals may use and respond to individualized rumbles. What's in a name? It's more [...]

An analysis of elephant calls using an artificial intelligence tool suggests that the animals may use and respond to individualized rumbles. What's in a name? It's more than a sound [...]

Un análisis de las vocalizaciones de los elefantes mediante una herramienta de inteligencia artificial sugiere que pueden utilizar y responder a retumbos individualizados. ¿Qué hay en un nombre? Es algo [...]

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn't know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. [...]

Cuando Ruby Reynolds y su padre encontraron un fósil en una playa inglesa, no sabían que pertenecía a un ictiosaurio de unos 25 metros que nadó en la época de [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski On Valentine's Day, Melissa Torres strung up red tinsel hearts around a shallow pool at her workplace, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La [...]

On Valentine's Day, Melissa Torres strung up red tinsel hearts around a shallow pool at her workplace, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. She [...]

Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how baleen whales call out at sea. People have told stories of strange underwater sounds for thousands of years, but it [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Scientists studied how thresher sharks use 'extreme yoga' to whip their tails at prey. When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn't lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches [...]

Scientists studied how thresher sharks use ''extreme yoga'' to whip their tails at prey. When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn't lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches a school of [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski The specimen came from a 289 million-year-old fossil deposit and might offer clues to how skin evolved. Dry, scaly skin may be one of the least fun [...]

The specimen came from a 289 million-year-old fossil deposit and might offer clues to how skin evolved. Dry, scaly skin may be one of the least fun parts of winter. [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes. Every single [...]

The preserved insects, from a cache of Lebanese resin, appear to be male but have mouth parts that are found only on modern female mosquitoes. Every single mosquito that's ever [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Shipboard experiments suggested that sediment from the exploitation of metals in the ocean could be harmful to marine life. A treasure trove of metal is hiding at [...]

Shipboard experiments suggested that sediment from the exploitation of metals in the ocean could be harmful to marine life. A treasure trove of metal is hiding at the bottom of [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski More than 4 billion years ago, when the solar system was still young and the Earth was still growing, a giant object the size of Mars crashed [...]

A study of hundreds of specimens from European archaeological digs found two species of whales that are no longer present in the continent's waters. Industrial-scale whaling in the 19th and [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski New research indicates that, relative to their size, the snakes that can gulp down the largest meals are harmless and three feet long. Snakes can't really unhinge [...]

A study of hundreds of specimens from European archaeological digs found two species of whales that are no longer present in the continent’s waters. Industrial-scale whaling in the 19th and [...]

New research indicates that, relative to their size, the snakes that can gulp down the largest meals are harmless and three feet long. Snakes can't really unhinge their jaws, but [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski A Brazilian team's finding helps fill in the fossil record to explain how the flightless reptiles evolved in the dinosaur era. Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski The creature's surprising anatomy suggests that rapid and unusual evolution was occurring in the seas after a period of massive extinction. Volcanic eruptions set off a mass [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Researchers recently discovered the coldest star ever found that emits radio waves. When you sit at a campfire and look up at the stars, even the tiniest [...]

It’s like a man-bites-dog story from prehistoric times, although researchers had to take steps to verify that it was not a forgery. The work of a paleontologist is often like [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski The wings of monarchs that survive a 2,000-mile-long migration tend to be spottier, suggesting that feature may aid the insects' ability to fly. Every fall, monarch butterflies [...]

The wings of monarchs that survive a 2,000-mile-long migration tend to be spottier, suggesting that feature may aid the insects' ability to fly. Every fall, monarch butterflies embark on one [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Joro spiders are spreading around the United States and may turn up in New York soon. Recent experiments suggest that they may be shyer than other arachnids. [...]

Joro spiders are spreading around the United States and may turn up in New York soon. Recent experiments suggest that they may be shyer than other arachnids. Joro spiders are [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Neuroscientists are examining how fish navigate their world using different brain circuits than those relied on by mammals like us. On the one hand, this headgear looks [...]

Neuroscientists are examining how fish navigate their world using different brain circuits than those relied on by mammals like us. On the one hand, this headgear looks like something a [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Experiments using mice found a malfunction in adult stem cells that offers insights into why we turn into silver foxes and vixens. Many of the signs of [...]

Experiments using mice found a malfunction in adult stem cells that offers insights into why we turn into silver foxes and vixens. Many of the signs of aging are invisible, [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski Researchers said the paleontological remains were another sign that our early human cousins had intelligence. A number of cities vie for the unofficial title of 'seafood capital [...]

Researchers said the paleontological remains were another sign that our early human cousins had intelligence. A number of cities vie for the unofficial title of ''seafood capital of the world,'' [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski A study of the Baltic specimen offers new insights into what Europe's climate was like some 35 million years ago. Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the [...]

A study of the Baltic specimen offers new insights into what Europe's climate was like some 35 million years ago. Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski The duck-size animal's body was streamlined for pursuing prey underwater, researchers say. Other paleontologists say more work is needed to confirm the finding. Birds, the only group [...]

The duck-size animal's body was streamlined for pursuing prey underwater, researchers say. Other paleontologists say more work is needed to confirm the finding. Birds, the only group of dinosaurs still [...]

Byline: Kate Golembiewski An experiment revealed that chomping on slightly tougher material requires markedly more energy. Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution. Humans [...]

Charlie Chasen and Michael Malone met in Atlanta in 1997, when Mr. Malone served as a guest singer in Mr. Chasen's band. They quickly became friends, but they didn't notice [...]