Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to rest in the palm of their hand. You can imagine ...

Scientists have published a broad review of what they’ve learned about moths and butterflies over the last few decades. Special attention is given to pivotal moments during the ~300 million-year ...

Global unprovoked shark bites returned to near-average levels in 2025, following a sharp reduction the year prior. There was a total of 65 unprovoked shark bites worldwide in 2025, slightly less than ...

Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have discovered the first known instance of ancient bees nesting inside preexisting fossil cavities. Burrowing bees generally ...

ncient, gangly cousins of sea stars, brittle stars crawl the seafloor on five flexible arms, which in some cases measure 2 feet long and can be shed and regrown at will. With no eyes, heart or brain, ...

Iron artifacts from early Spanish expeditions in North America often look too similar to tell apart, making it difficult to establish the exact routes that were taken. In a new study, archaeologists ...

White sharks exhibit stark differences between the DNA in their nuclei and the DNA in their mitochondria. Until now, scientists have pointed to the migration patterns of great whites to explain the ...

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve ...

The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn’t headed to the park’s famous recreation spots. It was there for conservation, and the ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time, preserving the animals ...

2024 was an exceptionally calm year for shark bites. Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70. Four of last year’s ...