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Jena Ardell/Getty Images Scientists Just Discovered How Long Humans Have Been Laughing, and It’s Way Longer Than You Think
Researchers found humans and great apes share a basic laughter rhythm that may date back to a common ancestor.
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Scientists Discovered 31 New Deep-Sea Species, and They’re All Extremely Weird
The new creatures include ghostly worms, glittering comb jellies, mucus-house builders, and giant single-celled organisms.
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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.
