1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (808+ words) A copper ornament in the form of a panther from Roman Britain has emerged as one of the most striking survivals of imperial propaganda, its paws pressing down on a severed human head. Mounted on a carriage for public display,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (919+ words) Trail cameras in Nepal recorded evidence of small groups of endangered red pandas in Myagdi District, a little-studied area of central Nepal. In Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality within Myagdi District, the cameras confirmed new presence records where steep terrain and dense…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (809+ words) Walking through a forest shows how tall plants can grow. Trees rise high above the ground, with leaves reaching up toward sunlight. Height helps plants survive, but it depends on internal systems that carry water and nutrients through the plant....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (917+ words) High above central Europe, a commercial Earth observation satellite snapped a portrait of Prague from space that is sharp enough to reveal individual staircases, statues, and people. The European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing this ultra detailed view to show…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (912+ words) On a routine wildlife survey in a forest reserve in southwest China, scientists caught a weasel that turned out to be a species no one had recorded before. The animal, now named Mustela mopbie, is the newest member of a…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (657+ words) The discovery confirms that this vulnerable otter species is hiding in a busy landscape that people mostly associate with tigers. It also hints at a much richer river ecosystem flowing through the hills of Uttarakhand. A remote-camera study documented smooth-coated…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (761+ words) The scene stretched across white ice and dark water near eighty two degrees north, a latitude that pushed the group beyond usual tourist routes. Scientists have been asking how often scenes like this mattered for polar bears in the past…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (707+ words) Human movement today is about 40 times greater than the combined movement of all wild animal species " including land mammals, birds, and arthropods. A new study quantifies that shift and shows how it rose over the last two centuries. The work…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (777+ words) Australia's only shrew, the Christmas Island shrew, Crocidura trichura, has now been classified as extinct, closing the book on a native lineage that once scurried through the island's rainforest at night." An analysis places this loss within a sobering national…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (970+ words) For decades, biologists thought isolation on islands nudged animals toward smaller bodies, tamer behavior, and shrunken brains " an energy-saving suite dubbed "island syndrome." However, a new study of Channel Islands foxes complicates that picture. Most of these cat-sized predators evolved…...