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In 2006 researchers dredging off Iceland pulled up an ocean quahog clam and froze it with the rest of their samples, unaware that it had been alive since about 1499. Its tightly packed shell rings were eventually counted at 507—making “Ming” the oldest accurately aged non-colonial animal ever recorded, killed before anyone realised it had lived through five centuries of history.
18+ hour, 59+ min ago (1004+ words) Ming was frozen with roughly 200 research specimens before its age was known. A later count of 507 annual shell rings placed its birth around 1499. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit In 2006, a Bangor University research…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
There is no queen and no hive behind Xylocopa caerulea: each female excavates her own wood tunnel, packs it with bee bread of pollen and nectar, lays an egg on the store and seals the cell before starting the next
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (343+ words) A blue carpenter bee working a tropical garden looks like a scrap of sky that got loose, and the temptation is to imagine a hive somewhere behind her — a colony, a queen, a comb. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin…...
Scientists uncovered a bizarre crocodile cousin from 215 million years ago that started life walking on all fours, then changed its entire stance as it grew — by adulthood it was standing upright and striding around on two legs
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (470+ words) A crocodile relative in ancient Arizona underwent a radical transformation during its lifetime, shifting from four-legged crawler to upright biped—a developmental puzzle that rewrites what scientists thought possible for reptiles. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit Picture a poodle that…...
Two researchers who measured real campfires report that firelight is bright enough to read a pair of hands, and argue that its flicker may be what disadvantaged gesture and favoured speech, while the fire itself can hide whoever sits opposite
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (668+ words) A review in Proceedings of the Royal Society B argues that language itself began in fireside storytelling. It brings light meters to a question that has run for years on description alone. By The Long View · Edited by Chris Jeremia…...
Scientists looked inside a rock pellet smaller than a grain of rice and found a 445-million-year-old world preserved within it — more than 20 microscopic marine organisms, including a species never seen before
1+ week, 2+ day ago (362+ words) Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit A cylinder of rock narrower than a grain of rice went into an X-ray beam outside Melbourne and came back holding an ocean. Sitting inside it were more than 20 microscopic fossils, spread across eight species,…...
In 2022, a 17-year-old built a $300 thought-controlled prosthetic arm; unlike very expensive and invasive brain-controlled systems, his version reads brainwaves through non-invasive electrodes
1+ week, 3+ day ago (329+ words) One arm is a research-lab masterwork that reads a wearer's intent and, in some setups, lets them feel through it. Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit We are not clinicians, prosthetists, or biomedical engineers, and nothing here is medical guidance. This…...
Does wealth make you better? The research says it depends entirely on what you do with it
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (592+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...
Scientists drilling through Antarctic ice pulled up a core containing air bubbles trapped 800,000 years ago, before modern humans existed, before agriculture, before written language — and the ancient air was still sealed inside
2+ week, 2+ day ago (429+ words) Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. It fell as snow around 800,000 years ago,…...
In 2024, a Chinese submersible found thousands of tubeworms and clams living 9,533 metres down in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, feeding on methane rather than sunlight — a 2,500-kilometre ecosystem nobody knew was there
2+ week, 2+ day ago (489+ words) Life thrives in Earth's most extreme depths by eating poison gas instead of sunlight—an entire hidden ecosystem that scientists have only just begun to glimpse. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit How do…...