Study in search of a tropical spring is the first to show some birds flip their breeding season in response to climate
Key points Many years of scientific observation and research show that temperate birds nest in the spring, and their breeding…
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Scientists lay out what we do and don’t yet know about moths and butterflies
Key points Scientists have published a broad review of what they’ve learned about moths and butterflies over the last few…
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Global shark bites return to average in 2025, with smaller proportion in the United States
Global unprovoked shark bites returned to near-average levels in 2025, following a sharp reduction the year prior. There was a…
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Scientists trace ancient bird flight paths using modern plant diversity
Key points The Massif de la Hotte is a young, exceptionally biodiverse mountain range in southern Haiti that is home…
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Paleontologists find first bee nest fossils made inside fossilized bones
Key points Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have discovered the first known instance of…
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No eyes, no brain, no problem: Brittle stars have traveled the world over, and scientists have figured out how
A ncient, gangly cousins of sea stars, brittle stars crawl the seafloor on five flexible arms, which in some cases…
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Paleontologists go back to the future, reconstruct fossilized functional diversity to inform conservation goals
Key points Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil…
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World’s soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea
It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live…
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100 new ribbon worm species and counting
Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale. Some of them come in…
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Paper addresses natural history collections’ role in pandemic preparedness
Natural history collections contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disease outbreaks that could turn into a…
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