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In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...
In 1982 a husband and wife began recording mammals along fixed trails on an island in the Panama Canal, later adding a line of camera traps, and they kept it up for 44 years. This year they began handing the project to a younger researcher who wants it to reach 100 years.
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (225+ words) A half-century of mammal counts on a Panama Canal island is about to become a century-long experiment in ecological change—if the handoff works. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit It is worth slowing…...
Slime mould has no brain, no neurons and no central control, yet when scientists placed food at 36 locations matching cities around Tokyo, it grew a network strikingly similar to the rail system — with comparable efficiency, cost and resilience
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (462+ words) A single-celled organism with no brain solved a transportation puzzle that took human engineers decades to perfect. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A brainless yellow blob spread across a wet plate in a Japanese lab and, meaning nothing by it,…...
A university professor spent 100 days living in a 100-square-foot habitat 22 feet beneath a Key Largo lagoon — and when he finally surfaced, he measured half an inch shorter after spending the entire mission under elevated pressure
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (494+ words) Joseph Dituri went into the water at 73 inches tall. He came out, 100 days later, at just over 72. The final measurement came on a Key Largo dock in June 2023, in front of family, friends and strangers who had followed… Published September…...
Brainless sea-sponge larvae use sunset cues to prep their cells, then attach to a surface in about 30 minutes once night falls, in a lineage roughly 700 million years old
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (159+ words) Ancient sea sponges have no brain, yet somehow know to chemically rewire their cells at dusk, positioning themselves for the crucial moment of settling into stone. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit That timing…...
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, 2+ 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…...
In 1959, and again in 1971, South Korea imported American bullfrogs to be raised as food, but the business never took off; released and escaped frogs spread through the country and now prey heavily on native wildlife.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (698+ words) Import a big, fast-growing frog from North America, farm it for its meat, and turn a pond into a small food business. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit Import a big, fast-growing frog from North America, farm it for its meat,…...
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture — dental plaque from 745 ancient humans found Europeans rarely ate them, while genetic evidence shows reduced ability to digest their exoskeletons persisted for at least 9,000 years.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1222+ words) Sparse insect DNA in ancient northern Eurasian dental calculus and 9,000-year-old chitinase patterns point to a deep ecological history without identifying a gene for disgust. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit Disgust can feel…...
Why 34 of 38 crickets in a dark glass tube walked away from a synthetic copy of one terpene found in a bat's snout secretions, and why the researchers still cannot say how a cricket tells a bat from a leaf
2+ week, 1+ day ago (853+ words) In a Y-shaped glass tube run in complete darkness, 44 of 47 wild-caught crickets chose the arm carrying clean air over the arm carrying bat scent, and a purchased standard of a single compound the team had found in the bat's snout…...
A single teaspoon of soil from a healthy forest floor contains more living organisms — bacteria, fungi, protists, nematodes — than there are humans on Earth, and most of the species in that spoonful have never been named or described
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1117+ words) A teaspoon of healthy forest soil holds more individual organisms than Earth has humans, and most of its species have never been named. What sequencing reveals about the invisible community underfoot. Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit Put a teaspoon into…...