Search Results for: Tortoise

Science & Society

Here are 7 new science museums and exhibitions to visit in 2023

The Grand Egyptian Museum is slated to open, as well as new exhibitions dedicated to space travel, the Galápagos Islands and more.

Animals

A giant tortoise was caught stalking, killing and eating a baby bird

Video captures the first documented instance of a tortoise hunting another animal.

Health & Medicine

Cooperative sperm outrun loners in the mating race

Sperm that swim in clusters travel more directly toward the uterus, while overcoming fluid currents in the reproductive tract.

Animals

Here are 7 incredible things we learned this year that animals can do

From wielding weapons to walking on the underside of water, these are the creature capabilities that most impressed us in 2021.

Earth

Rare earth mining may be key to our renewable energy future. But at what cost?

We take you inside Mountain Pass, the only rare earth mine in the United States.

Anthropology

Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals

Iberia’s mild climate fostered a host of resources for hominids often pegged as mammoth hunters.

Paleontology

An ancient hippo-sized reptile may have been surprisingly agile

The skull of an Anteosaurus, a hefty reptile with a large snout, hints that it may have moved fast for its day.

Anthropology

Israeli fossil finds reveal a new hominid group, Nesher Ramla Homo

Discoveries reveal a new Stone Age population that had close ties to Homo sapiens at least 120,000 years ago, complicating the human family tree.

Animals

How tuatara live so long and can withstand cool weather

Tuatara may look like your average lizard, but they’re not. Now, researchers have deciphered the rare reptiles’ genome, or genetic instruction book.

Archaeology

Neandertals’ extensive seafood menu rivals that of ancient humans

Finds from a coastal cave in Portugal reveal repeated ocean foraging for this European hominid.

Animals

Studying giant tortoise flips without tipping the animals over is a delicate business

Giant tortoise shells go domed or saddlebacked, but which is better when navigating treacherous ground?

Animals

‘Poached’ offers a deep, disturbing look into the illegal wildlife trade

In ‘Poached,’ a journalist reports from the front lines of the illegal wildlife trade and shows how conservationists are fighting back.