With her hull straying against the pressure, the Norwegian icebreaker Kronprins Haakon floats through a frozen labyrinth of ice floes eight hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. A brief glimpse of dawn in the endless darkness of the polar night, the sky glows a terrible purple. A group of scientists bracing against -30°C winds ...
Deep under Antarctica’s frozen surface, something unworkable is happening. Scientists have found odd radio pulses from below the ice signals that violate accepted physics rules. Captured by instruments floating eighteen miles (29km) above the continent, these enigmatic emissions seem to start at angles thirty degrees below the surface, a path that should be physically impossible. ...
A creature straight from prehistory swarms through the underbrush in razor-sharp form and is decorated by bony crested in the forests that lie in Australia in the Australian and New Guinea. It is often referred to as the “modern-day dinosaur,” the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuaries) is more than a bird, it’s an actual relic of ...
Three genetically modified “dire wolves” produced by biotech company Colasant Biosciences Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi have drawn worldwide interest. Scientific wonders, these large, white-furred canids resurrected from DNA fragments of a species extinct 12,000 years are. Underneath the show, though, is a crucial question: Should we be resurrecting Ice Age predators when living species are ...
Frozen in Siberian permafrost, originally believed to be among the earliest domesticated dogs, the “Tumat Puppies” enthralled researchers and dog enthusiasts alike for more than ten years. However, a ground-breaking new study reveals they were actually wolf sisters with a surprising last meal, woolly rhinoceros, shattering that assumption. This finding not only changes their narrative ...
Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in their lifetime to fly to the moon and back without ever consulting a map or GPS. Rather, they depend on an astonishing range of biological tools: celestial cues, magnetic fields, quantum mechanics, even their sense of smell. ...
Scientists have perplexed for decades over a basic question: How could a small group of Homo sapiens effectively leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, spreading to every corner of the planet, while earlier migration attempts failed? According to a ground-breaking research that was written about in Nature, our predecessors did not merely happen onto fresh ...
In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” Discovered almost a century ago from the depths of a Chinese well, the large, thick-browed cranium defied categorization and generated intense arguments on its position in the human family tree. Now, innovative genetic and protein ...
A delicate felt swan created more than 2,400 years ago has surfaced as an intriguing relic of a long-lost cosmology in the frozen depths of Siberia. Discovered from an old burial mound in the Altai Mountains, this soft figure is more than just a relic; according to archaeologists, it may represent the very birth of ...
A group of capuchin monkeys has evolved a terrifying new habit on a remote island off the coast of Panama: kidnapping young howler monkeys. What started as an anomaly, a single young man carrying an infant from another species has descended into a deadly “fad,” engulfing the group with no apparent benefit to the kidnappers ...
