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Dr. Manfred Schartl/Texas A&M This Fish Can Clone Itself Without Any Weird Clone Defects
These fish have solved the evolutionary problem scientists assumed would wipe them out in the most science fiction way possible.
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Mint Images/Getty Images Are America’s Insects Dying Off?
Scientists are having a really hard time determining which insects in North America are at risk of extinction.
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The Conversation Marsupial Found Alive After Being Thought Dead for 6,000 Years
The latest animal to rise from the not-so-dead is the Lazarus taxa. Researchers re-added its name to the list of creatures that are still alive.
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William Brune Trees Glow During Thunderstorms, and Scientists Finally Caught It on Camera
You can’t see it with your eyes. But a camera can.
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Lorenzo Marchetti The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
It’s a butthole. It’s functional. It’s unglamorous. It’s also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built.
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AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/ Contributor/Getty Images This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old ‘Smiling’ Fossil Isn’t What It Seems
Britain’s Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand.
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Three Lions/Stringer/Getty Images CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice
Researchers found that children who were sacrificed to appease the gods were drunk and drugged for up to a year before they died.
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Elena Panfilo/NSU Press Service Mummified Skull Reveals Iron Age Woman Survived Brutal Jaw Surgery
The scans showed the woman’s right temporomandibular joint, your TMJ hinge near the ear, had been destroyed.
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Photo: MARIOS07 / Getty Images Life Hiding Deep Beneath Earth May Be Waiting Thousands of Years to Wake Up
How does anything become well-adapted to “almost nothing” for thousands of years?
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Photo: LuckyBusiness / Getty Images Scientists Pinpointed the Most Exhausting Decade of Your Life
Pro tip: start lifting weights now.
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Xinhua News Agency/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Butterfly Scientists Just Grew in Space
The butterfly hatched while aboard the station and then lived in orbit, adapting to microgravity with seemingly no trouble.
