You wake to a ping at 2 a.m., heart kicking like a startled deer. It feels irrational, but that jolt isn’t a glitch – it’s an ancient alarm still wired for predators, not push alerts. Scientists are mapping how yesterday’s survival tactics quietly steer today’s routines, from how we eat to who we trust. The ...
Imagine being dropped into a world where massive predators tower over you like living skyscrapers, where the air itself burns your lungs, and where every shadow could hide a creature that considers you nothing more than a walking snack. This isn’t science fiction – it’s the Mesozoic Era, and scientists have been calculating whether modern ...
Chimpanzees, one of humanity’s closest relatives, have been observed engaging in behaviors that resemble social drinking. Recent studies reveal that wild chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau consume and share fermented fruits, offering fascinating insights into the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption and social bonding. Alcohol Consumption in the Wild Researchers filmed chimpanzees eating naturally fermenting African breadfruit ...
By Jan Otte, DWS Contributor In today’s world, the barnyard and the motherboard are no longer worlds apart. Thanks to breakthroughs in bioinformatics, animal science is being transformed by data, algorithms, and a new wave of digital discovery. A New Era of Animal Science is Unfolding Digitally In a development that blurs the line between ...
A treasure trove of 380-million-year-old fossils in the sun-baked rocks of Western Australia’s Gogo Formation is changing the story of how the first land animals hunted and ate. A new study published in iScience gives us shocking new information about the diets of ancient lungfish, which are the ancestors of fish and four-legged vertebrates like ...
Sixty-six million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid struck Earth, unleashing one of the most catastrophic mass extinctions in planetary history. The event obliterated three-quarters of Earth’s species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Yet, in a stroke of evolutionary defiance, a small, secretive group of reptiles known as night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived in the region closest ...
A newly analyzed fossil has revealed surprising insights into the evolutionary history of echidnas, suggesting that their ancestors may have lived in water before transitioning to a terrestrial lifestyle. This discovery challenges long-held beliefs about monotreme evolution and highlights a rare instance of mammals evolving from aquatic to land-based existence. The Discovery of Kryoryctes Cadburyi ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
