• The Skin on Mysterious Medieval Books Concealed a Shaggy Surprise

    New York Times

    published:April 8, 2025

  • Unusual dinosaur tracks in Scotland reveal an ancient watering hole

    Science

    published:April 2, 2025

  • Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It

    New York Times

    published:March 31, 2025

  • Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds

    Scientific American

    published:March 25, 2025

  • How Iguanas Got from North America to Fiji Millions of Years Ago

    Scientific American

    published:March 17, 2025

  • This City’s Sewer System Is Full of Alligators, but It’s Not New York

    New York Times

    published:February 13, 2025

  • The Surprising Importance of This Adorable Sea Turtle Dance

    Scientific American

    published:February 12, 2025

  • Bonobos Can Infer What Humans Don’t Know and Point Them in the Right Direction

    Scientific American

    published:February 3, 2025

  • Scientists Finally Make Heads of Giant Stingray Tails

    New York Times

    published:January 21, 2025

  • Hear How Baby Humpback Whales Burp and Bark to Beg for Food

    Scientific American

    published:December 17, 2024

  • Dinosaur Domination Is Marked in a Timeline of Vomit and Feces Fossils

    New York Times

    published:November 27, 2024

  • You May Not Be Able to Outrun a Vampire Bat

    New York Times

    published:November 5, 2024

  • The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started

    New York Times

    published:October 25, 2024

  • Hairballs Shed Light on Man-Eating Lions’ Menu

    New York Times

    published:October 11, 2024

  • A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall

    New York Times

    published:September 18, 2024

  • Bon Voyage: From Iowa to the Final Frontier

    Iowa Magazine

    published:August 27, 2024

  • Saving Australian Crocodiles by Yucking Their Yum

    New York Times

    published:August 13, 2024

  • Fossil Hints That Jurassic Mammals Lived Slow and Died Old

    New York Times

    published:July 24, 2024

  • A Fossil Mystery, Solved by a Spin

    New York Times

    published:July 15, 2024

  • First birds molted their feathers much like modern ones, fossils show

    Science

    published:July 2, 2024

  • A Trilobite Pompeii Preserves Exquisite Fossils in Volcanic Ash

    New York Times

    published:June 27, 2024

  • Humans Started Passing Down Knowledge to Future Generations 600,000 Years Ago

    Scientific American

    published:June 17, 2024

  • Fossil Catches Starfish Cousin in the Act of Cloning Itself

    New York Times

    published:May 21, 2024

  • A Megaraptor Emerges From Footprint Fossils

    New York Times

    published:April 24, 2024

  • Ancient Foxes Lived and Died Alongside Humans

    New York Times

    published:April 9, 2024

  • Chickadees Use Brain-Cell ‘Barcodes’ to Remember Where They Stashed Their Snacks

    Scientific American

    published:April 2, 2024

  • Ancient ‘Dune’-like Sandworm Existed Far Longer Than Thought

    New York Times

    published:March 26, 2024

  • Why Cicadas Power Spray Their Pee

    Scientific American

    published:March 19, 2024

  • These Electric Fish Detect Images of What Their Companions Are ‘Seeing’

    Scientific American

    published:March 6, 2024

  • Stunning Dragonlike Fossil Reptile Found in China

    Scientific American

    published:February 28, 2024

  • An Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Explains Why Snakes Come in So Many Strange Varieties

    Scientific American

    published:February 23, 2024

  • A Dog Breed’s Size and Face Shape Might Predict How Long It Lives

    Scientific American

    published:February 2, 2024

  • This Ancient Fish Gave the Whole Ocean the Stiff Lower Lip

    New York Times

    published:January 30, 2024

  • This Tiny Marsupial Gives Up Sleep for Sex, Then Drops Dead

    Scientific American

    published:January 25, 2024

  • The Biggest Ape That Ever Lived Was Not Too Big to Fail

    New York Times

    published:January 10, 2024

  • Eyeless Cave Spiders Can Still ‘See’ the Light

    Scientific American

    published:December 20, 2023

  • Ever Want to Curl Into a Ball? Here’s How Trilobites Did It.

    New York Times

    published:December 19, 2023

  • Dinosaur Dimensions Weren’t One-Size-Fits-All

    Discover Magazine

    published:December 13, 2023

  • Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World

    Scientific American

    published:December 12, 2023

  • Nesting Penguins Take More Than 10,000 Mini Naps Every Day

    Scientific American

    published:November 30, 2023

  • Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science

    New York Times

    published:November 21, 2023

  • Mysterious Galápagos Reefs Harbor Strawberry Squid and Other Fantastic Creatures

    Scientific American

    published:November 2, 2023

  • Rats Use the Power of Imagination to Navigate and Move Objects in a VR Landscape

    Scientific American

    published:November 2, 2023

  • We Finally Know Where Oranges and Lemons Come From

    Scientific American

    published:October 10, 2023

  • Last Meal of 465-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Discovered

    Scientific American

    published:September 28, 2023

  • Pink Diamonds Erupted to Earth’s Surface after Early Supercontinent’s Breakup

    Scientific American

    published:September 19, 2023

  • Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom

    New York Times

    published:September 12, 2023

  • Strange Ecosystem Found Thriving below Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents

    Scientific American

    published:August 9, 2023

  • 505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found

    New York Times

    published:August 1, 2023

  • Are ‘Cocaine Sharks’ Really Scarfing Down Drugs off Florida’s Coasts?

    Scientific American

    published:July 26, 2023

  • Mammals Preyed on Much Larger Dinosaurs, a Stunning New Fossil Reveals

    Scientific American

    published:July 18, 2023

  • This Extinct Dolphin Had Tusks That Fish Were Wise to Avoid

    New York Times

    published:June 13, 2023

  • X-Ray Vision Brings New Life to a Fossil Flattened by Time

    New York Times

    published:June 1, 2023

  • 462-Million-Year-Old Fossil Trove Holds Miniature World of Marine Creatures

    Scientific American

    published:May 10, 2023

  • 2200-year-old pile of excrement provides window into condors’ past

    Science

    published:May 2, 2023

  • 50,000 Worms Tangled Up in a Ball Unravel in an Explosive Burst when a Predator Appears

    Scientific American

    published:April 27, 2023

  • Was the Tully Monster a Fish? A Worm? A Giant Slug with Fangs?

    Scientific American

    published:April 19, 2023

  • How Bears Hibernate without Getting Blood Clots

    Scientific American

    published:April 13, 2023

  • Tigers have distinct personalities, according to big cat questionnaire

    Science

    published:April 4, 2023

  • Imagine T. Rex. Now Imagine It With Lips.

    New York Times

    published:March 30, 2023

  • Mutation behind night blindness in humans helps whale sharks see in the dark

    Science

    published:March 25, 2023

  • Tiny Spider Fells Prey Many Times Its Size

    Scientific American

    published:March 16, 2023

  • It’s Not a Stretch: This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot Neck

    New York Times

    published:March 15, 2023

  • Dunk Was Chunky, but Still Deadly

    New York Times

    published:March 4, 2023

  • Sharpshooter Insects Use ‘Superpropulsion’ to Catapult Their Pee

    Scientific American

    published:February 28, 2023

  • These centipedes ‘see’ sunlight, even without eyes

    Science

    published:February 13, 2023

  • The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed Was a ‘Monster Bird’

    New York Times

    published:February 8, 2023

  • Mammals That Live Together Live Longer

    Scientific American

    published:January 31, 2023

  • When deer disappear off the menu, hungry wolves turn to sea otters

    Science

    published:January 23, 2023

  • Echidnas blow snot bubbles to cool down

    Science

    published:January 17, 2023

  • See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber

    Scientific American

    published:January 12, 2023

  • The Muscles That Power a Female Insect’s Penislike Organ

    New York Times

    published:January 10, 2023

  • Glass frogs become see-through by hiding their blood

    Science

    published:December 22, 2022

  • What does that moo mean? Humans can make some emotional sense of barnyard babble

    Science

    published:December 6, 2022

  • The Ankylosaur’s Tail-Club Wasn’t Only Swinging at T. Rex

    New York Times

    published:December 6, 2022

  • Hemp may get cows high, but will their milk do the same to you?

    Science

    published:November 14, 2022

  • Long-lost ‘sea dragon’ replicas unearthed in museum collections

    Science

    published:November 1, 2022

  • It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery

    New York Times

    published:October 26, 2022

  • Fossils Reveal Pterosaur Relatives Before They Evolved Wings

    New York Times

    published:October 5, 2022

  • Fossils Solve Mystery of an Ancient ‘Alien Goldfish’

    New York Times

    published:September 20, 2022

  • Philadelphia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine

    Hakai Magazine, Wired, Popular Science

    published:September 20, 2022

  • Humans and parrots battle in an ‘arms race’ over trash in Australia

    Science

    published:September 14, 2022

  • A grizzly mystery: Why were bears missing toes?

    Science

    published:September 3, 2022

  • A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids

    New York Times

    published:August 30, 2022

  • A 19th century farmer may be to blame for Australia’s rabbit scourge

    Science

    published:August 22, 2022

  • Medieval friars were riddled with parasites

    Science

    published:August 18, 2022

  • Modern and Ancient Crickets May Sing the Same Song

    New York Times

    published:August 10, 2022

  • In a First, Tiny Crustaceans Are Found to ‘Pollinate’ Seaweed like Bees of the Sea

    Scientific American

    published:July 28, 2022

  • Beloved Chincoteague ponies’ mythical origins may be real

    National Geographic

    published:July 27, 2022

  • Splitting T. Rex Into 3 Species Becomes a Dinosaur Royal Rumble

    New York Times

    published:July 25, 2022

  • Why some animals turn cannibal

    Science

    published:July 19, 2022

  • How Penguins Beat the Heat and Went South

    New York Times

    published:July 19, 2022

  • Who’s Got Two Pseudothumbs and Loves to Eat Bamboo? This Bear.

    New York Times

    published:June 30, 2022

  • Centenarian Tortoises May Set the Standard for Anti-Aging

    New York Times

    published:June 23, 2022

  • Newly identified population of polar bears survives on glacier slush, not sea ice

    Science

    published:June 16, 2022

  • Earth’s Largest Rodents Were Smaller Than We Once Thought

    New York Times

    published:June 14, 2022

  • Giraffes May Be Long-Necked for Fights, Not Just Food

    New York Times

    published:June 2, 2022

  • How Parachute Frogs Took to the Sky

    Scientific American

    published:June 1, 2022

  • At the UI Museum of Natural History, a Paradise Not Yet Lost

    Iowa Magazine

    published:May 31, 2022

  • Dolphins Rub against Mucus-Oozing Corals to Soothe Skin

    Scientific American

    published:May 19, 2022

  • YouTube videos reveal Asian elephants may mourn their dead

    Science

    published:May 17, 2022

  • Do species names perpetuate gender bias in science?

    Science

    published:May 10, 2022

  • Before There Were Birds or Bees, This Is How Trilobites Made Babies

    New York Times

    published:May 6, 2022

  • Dogs’ Personalities Aren’t Determined by Their Breed

    Scientific American

    published:April 28, 2022

  • These Spiders Spring Off Their Mates to Avoid Sexual Cannibalism

    Scientific American

    published:April 25, 2022

  • The Changing Face of Parasitism

    Hakai Magazine

    published:April 11, 2022

  • ‘Big John,’ a High-Profile Triceratops, Locked Horns With Its Own Kind, Study Suggests

    New York Times

    published:April 7, 2022

  • Dimwitted Mammals Needed Muscle More Than Brains After Dinosaurs Died

    New York Times

    published:March 31, 2022

  • Lost Genes Explain Vampire Bats’ Diet of Blood

    Scientific American

    published:March 25, 2022

  • Tiny Flier ‘Swims’ through the Air at Superspeed

    Scientific American

    published:March 21, 2022

  • A lizard on a log staring at the camera

    Fossil Reveals Secrets of One of Nature’s Most Mysterious Reptiles

    The New York Times

    published:March 6, 2022

  • Pamplona Bull Runs Reveal Dynamics of Crowds in Danger

    Scientific American

    published:March 1, 2022

  • a huge mob of penguins, hundreds young and old in a gathered area

    On These Islands, Animals Call the Shots

    Discover Magazine

    published:February 23, 2022

  • alive lizard facing sideways with tail cut off and facing camera

    Paradox of the Lizard Tail, Solved

    The New York Times

    published:February 17, 2022

  • white spindly fungi growing out of moss

    Lichens Could Need More Than a Million Years to Adapt to Climate Change

    Scientific American

    published:February 15, 2022

  • illustration of small swimming creature

    One of Evolution’s Oddest Creatures Finds a Fossilized Family Member

    The New York Times

    published:February 8, 2022

  • small white puffy starfish on ocean floor

    Surprise Fossil-Munching Sponges Found in Arctic Seafloor Wasteland

    Scientific American

    published:February 8, 2022

  • A lemur sits on a wood frame with hand on cage looking behind him

    The Anatomical Scars of Lemurs in Captivity

    Johns Hopkins Magazine

    published:January 26, 2022

  • Fossils of animals shown on a wall behind a glass case

    Re-excavating the Baron’s Bounty

    The Science Writer

    published:January 18, 2022

  • hard-shell bug fossils in rock

    Fossils of a Prehistoric Rainforest Hide in Australia’s Rusted Rocks

    The New York Times

    published:January 7, 2022

  • a huge school of sulphur mollies swimming in one direction

    Fish Do the Wave to Ward Off Predatory Birds

    Scientific American

    published:December 22, 2021

  • Sea mussels and clams in clear bags and boxes

    Why Are Paleontologists Getting Into Florida’s Oyster Business?

    Atlas Obscura, republished by Mother Jones and Wired

    published:December 15, 2021

  • image of three baleen whale coming out of the water for air

    To See Where a Whale Has Been, Look in Its Mouth

    Scientific American

    published:December 8, 2021

  • various fossils in mound of red clay-like rock

    Hidden on a Mountain in the Desert, Signs of the World’s First Reefs

    Hakai Magazine, republished by Smithsonian Magazine

    published:December 8, 2021

  • two white birds stare at one another

    Albatross ‘Divorce’ Rate Rises as the Ocean Warms

    Scientific American

    published:November 24, 2021

  • brown/orange and silver speckled fish with ridged fins

    Genes Reveal How Some Rockfish Live up to 200 Years

    Scientific American

    published:November 11, 2021

  • Frog

    This mysterious frog re-evolved a full set of teeth

    National Geographic

    published:November 10, 2021

  • fuzzy lemur holding onto a tree branch like a koala

    Giant Lemurs Are the First Mammals (Besides Us) Found To Use Rhythm

    Scientific American

    published:October 25, 2021

  • A lobster-like creature against a black background

    Invasive crayfish are dying in the Midwest. Could a fungus be the cause?

    National Geographic

    published:September 27, 2021

  • a small bone-like fossil in the palm of a hand

    Alabama’s Watery Past is a Warning

    Hakai Magazine, republished by The Atlantic

    published:September 8, 2021

  • Giant T-rex skeleton on a stand in a museum

    T. Rex Thrived in a Swampy Home, According to Amber ‘Time Capsule’

    Atlas Obscura

    published:August 26, 2021

  • small orange and brown speckled bird on a finger staring at camera

    Birds’ Eye Size Predicts Vulnerability to Habitat Loss

    Scientific American

    published:August 18, 2021

  • black cow stands in a field looking at camera

    How Cows Destroyed an Entire Marine Ecosystem in California

    Atlas Obscura

    published:June 21, 2021

  • A fossil in rock that resembles an isopod

    For a Peek Inside Wisconsin’s watery Past, Thank the Microbes

    Hakai Magazine, republished by The Atlantic.

    published:May 5, 2021

  • hundreds of snakes with their heads up in a tangled pit among branches

    What 26,000 Snakes can Teach Us about Climate Change

    Atlas Obscura, republished by Mother Jones.

    published:April 22, 2021