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Photo: EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP via Getty Images) 10 Million Years Ago, This 23-Foot Crocodile Ruled Over a Swamp Full of Giants
It was called Purussaurus, and it was a beast.
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Photo: IJdema / Getty Images Humans Aren’t the Only Animals That Keep Pets, New Study Finds
The desire to adopt a cute furry little buddy might not be unique to us.
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Photo: CSA-Printstock / Getty Images New Study Reveals We Still Pick Our Friends the Same Way Cavemen Did
Can you fight a sabertooth tiger? It might win you some friends.
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Photo: Ken Griffiths / Getty Images Scientists Reveal How a Group of Inbred Snakes Took Over an Entire Island
What likely began as a tiny handful of snakes quickly snowballed into an ecological disaster.
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Photo: Wei Wang et al. / Science Advances Scientists Just Found a 245-Million-Year-Old Sea Reptile With Its Organs Still Intact
They even know the last thing it ate.
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Photo: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al. / Polar Biology Scientists Just Filmed a Rare Arctic Squid for the First Time, and It Was Guarding Babies
Luckily the tiny squid didn’t seem too bothered by the intrusion.
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Photo: PeopleImages / Getty Images Modern Medicine Is Keeping Us Alive Longer, But That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing
Living longer is great, but we aren’t always living well.
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Photo: Archivo Administrativo, Museo Regional de Iquique–CORMUDESI / Science Advances Archaeologists Were Wrong About How These Famous Inca Child Mummies Died
No matter how bad it gets, at least we’re not Inca child sacrifices.
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Photo: Lan Zhang / Getty Images People With Aphantasia Can’t Visualize Anything. So How Do They Dream?
Among the visual aphantasics in the study, 46% said they always dream in pictures.
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Photo: Hajime Sato / Ecosphere A Crab Survived Two Months at Sea in a Bottle That Should’ve Been Too Small. This Study Explains How.
The magnitude of plastic pollution is hard to grasp, unless you’re a crab trapped in a bottle.
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Photo: Peter Finch / Getty Images You Might Be Left-Handed Because You Didn’t Practice Being Right-Handed Hard Enough, Scientists Say
All told, the findings suggest that the brain isn’t favoring one hand or the other.
