4+ day, 21+ min ago   (249+ words) Research led by Thomas Roberts, Haeyoung Eun (University of Surrey) Four adults stand on a ridge path in England’s Surrey Hills. One names a birdsong drifting across the valley using an app, and the group falls silent, wrapped up in…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (398+ words) (Credit: © Chris Reynold - stock.adobe.com) The American house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, is the classic example. Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, told Live Science the species…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (267+ words) Research led by Dr Thomas Clements (University of Reading) A reconstruction drawing of Pohlsepia mazonensis (Credit: Dr Thomas Clements, University of Reading) This reclassification, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, strips the fossil of its identity and removes…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (263+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Jamie L. Knaub (Florida Atlantic University) Great white sharks, mako sharks, and their relatives may all look like sleek predators from the outside, but their backbones tell surprisingly different stories. A new study used…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Emily E. Bray (University of Arizona) (Credit: © mariiya - stock.adobe.com) A microphone tucked in a pocket, switching on at random moments no one can predict. Just the ordinary sounds of daily life, including…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (298+ words) Research led by Vera Weisbecker (Flinders University), Douglass S. Rovinsky (Australian Museum, Sydney) Digital reconstruction of a CT-scanned thylacine skull with the canines colourised pink. Credit: Vera Weisbecker (Flinders), CC-BY-SA That size mismatch alone stands out. Weighing around 17 kilograms, roughly a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (336+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Tianqi Huang (Field Museum of Natural History) The new species of snake, L. slashi. (Credit: Chris Austin) Hidden in the lowland forests of northeastern New Guinea, a ground-dwelling snake had been slithering beneath the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) Pinpointing where dolphins likely feed versus socialize could help managers protect the ocean zones that matter most, especially as boat traffic and coastal development continue to grow. Researchers reviewed nearly 62 hours of audio across nearly 15,000 recording files. Dolphins showed up…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (600+ words) Called "brilliant," "fantastic," and "spot on" by scientists and researchers, our acclaimed StudyFinds Analysis articles are created using an exclusive AI-based model with complete human oversight by the StudyFinds Editorial Team. For these articles, we use an unparalleled LLM process…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (382+ words) Research led by Ishan Agarwal (Thackeray Wildlife Foundation) The research team first spotted that TikTok video in 2024. Based on the animal’s appearance, researchers suspected it might be something entirely new to science. They organized expeditions in 2024 and 2025 to the Indo-Gangetic…...