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A massive prehistoric snake discovered in India may have rivaled the largest snake ever known. Called Vasuki indicus, the 47-million-year-old giant could have reached up to 50 feet long, making it comparable to the legendary Titanoboa....Tuesday, October 13, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one of their most important evolutionary advantages. Although only 20 inches long, Megacauda sungei was a...Tuesday, October 6, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived before or during Snowball Earth, leaving...Sunday, October 4, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while recovering enough carbon to match or exceed untouched areas. The results suggest carefully managed thinning could...Wednesday, September 30, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A huge genomic and fossil study suggests bats first evolved in Europe around 65 to 60 million years ago before spreading across the globe. The findings also indicate that flight and echolocation emerged near the beginning of bat...Monday, September 28, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Yellow-morph green sea turtles in the Galápagos surprised scientists by staying remarkably close to home instead of making the long journeys typically associated with sea turtles. Satellite tracking showed that none left the marine...Saturday, September 26, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have mapped the genetics of cat cancer on an unprecedented scale and found surprising similarities with tumors in humans. The findings could help bring precision cancer treatments to cats while also revealing new clues about...Thursday, September 24, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists discovered two tiny new snail species in Montenegro, showing that even Europe still holds animals unknown to science. One lives in the threatened Komarnica Canyon, where a proposed hydropower reservoir could destroy habitat...Tuesday, September 22, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers observed a humpback whale mother staying beside her presumed stillborn calf for hours and possibly days off Australia’s Gold Coast. She maintained eye contact and remained close to the calf in behavior resembling caregiving...Monday, September 21, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that gentoos actually consist of four distinct species. The discovery also highlights a growing threat, as warming oceans...Sunday, September 20, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Cats may identify one another through a surprisingly durable chemical “calling card” made from 13 unusual fatty acids in their urine. The compounds appear linked to mysterious fat droplets in the kidneys and may represent a...Sunday, September 20, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Chemical clues preserved inside fossilized T. rex teeth reveal that the dinosaur maintained a body temperature of about 97 degrees Fahrenheit, almost identical to humans. The finding provides direct evidence that the giant predator was...Thursday, September 17, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists discovered a new frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, distinguishing it from nearly identical relatives through DNA and its unique call. Adenomera varcena highlights how much Amazonian biodiversity...Friday, September 11, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these genetic tricks could eventually...Friday, September 11, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the asteroid catastrophe. The extinct bird it came from had more primitive insulating feathers, suggesting superior...Wednesday, September 9, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers have developed a global framework to...Tuesday, September 8, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
The extinct “American cheetah” was not really a cheetah at all, but a puma relative with an unexpectedly flexible lifestyle. Fossils from the Yukon suggest northern populations survived partly by eating fish, possibly including salmon,...Monday, September 7, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth just months after surgeons performed an unusual operation that saved her foot from amputation. Her new daughter, Lagertha, is an important addition to a species believed to number...Saturday, September 5, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A common frog found across Ecuador and Colombia has finally been recognized as its own species after more than a century of mistaken identity. Museum specimens from the 1800s helped scientists reveal that Pristimantis milpe had been...Thursday, September 3, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered a strange black “devil flower” in Thailand that lives mostly underground, steals nutrients from fungi, and looks strikingly unlike a typical plant. The newly named Thismia daemona is known from fewer than 50...Monday, August 31, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees looked...Sunday, August 30, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered seven new species of Madagascar’s elusive diamond frogs, using DNA from modern and century-old museum specimens to solve a long-running biological puzzle. The findings reveal surprising hidden diversity and...Friday, August 28, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Some chimpanzees in West Africa repeatedly throw rocks at particular trees, creating piles of stones that can remain in use for more than a decade. Researchers think this unusual behavior may be cultural and could serve as a form of...Friday, August 28, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development. Because different species reacted in very...Wednesday, August 26, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in plain sight in Nepal and northern India. The discovery could give conservationists a powerful new way to trace...Tuesday, August 25, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A sweeping analysis of thousands of animal genomes suggests that chromosomes do not evolve randomly but instead follow a limited number of irreversible “evolutionary highways.” These one-way genetic changes preserve clues to more than...Sunday, August 23, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists discovered a small, yellowish mountain horned dragon in Thailand and named it Acanthosaura syrax after a dragon from House of the Dragon. Found only in a narrow band of high-elevation forest, the distinctive new species could...Sunday, August 23, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
An abandoned farm field became a flourishing wildflower meadow within little more than a decade, with plant diversity doubling and thousands of orchids appearing naturally. The discovery suggests that simply giving nature time to recover...Wednesday, August 19, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Miocene South America was packed with giant prey—and the predators hunting them were just as spectacular. Fossil bite marks suggest crocodylians, especially the enormous Purussaurus neivensis, were more important predators than mammals...Sunday, August 16, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. Named Spea labreae, the Ice Age spadefoot toad is an exceptionally rare find—only one other extinct Pleistocene...Thursday, August 13, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists may have uncovered evidence that a mammal ancestor was giving birth to live young 236 million years ago. A fossilized cynodont showed a neonatal growth line and an unusually large birth size that closely match patterns seen in...Sunday, August 9, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that...Saturday, August 8, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
CT scans of the world’s rarest dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird may have had a stronger sense of smell, a highly sensitive beak, and a lifestyle that extended into dawn and dusk. The discoveries are helping overturn centuries-old...Monday, August 3, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years of difficult expeditions, LiDAR mapping, and citizen-science detective work, researchers discovered an...Thursday, July 30, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago in what is now New Mexico. Named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, the jackal-sized predator had a reinforced skull,...Wednesday, July 29, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Bumblebees naturally have short lives, but extreme heat and human activity are making survival harder. Pesticides can poison bees or destroy the flowers they depend on, while habitat loss leaves them with fewer safe places to live and...Sunday, July 26, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A notorious snake invasion that devastated Guam’s native birds may have succeeded because the reptiles carried hidden genetic advantages. Using advanced long-read DNA sequencing, researchers uncovered more than 19,000 large genetic...Friday, July 24, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged. Analyses place it closer to living apes than any known East African species of the same age, pointing to North...Tuesday, July 21, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists studying decades of pygmy sperm whale strandings have uncovered three previously unknown types of Helicobacter bacteria hiding in the animals’ stomachs. All four infected whales showed serious digestive damage, including...Sunday, July 19, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a source of food, then built wooden traps to catch themFriday, July 17, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
An experiment showed AI users had the most creative ideas when they used it in moderation – not too much and not too little. Columnist David Robson puts the finding to the test, and explores what we lose when we over-rely on AIFriday, July 17, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting them to the bacteria's rough surfacesFriday, July 17, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing how cheap technology is making military hardware accessible to allFriday, July 17, 2026 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
A major DNA study has rewritten the koala's evolutionary story, revealing that the species suffered a dramatic population collapse about 100,000 years ago, long before humans arrived in Australia. By calculating the koala's mutation rate...Friday, July 17, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low costFriday, July 17, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and daggersThursday, July 16, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice suggests that a drug could restore this ability and improve ageing outcomesThursday, July 16, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
Keith Thomas, 48, has paralysis, but brain stimulation gave him some feeling and movement in his hands – and this was maintained even when the stimulation was turned offThursday, July 16, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
Astronomers have only previously found atmospheres around exoplanets that are very large or incredibly hot – but now they have found one adorning a world that may well be right for lifeThursday, July 16, 2026 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
A new kind of antibody drug that more efficiently enters the brain could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease with a much lower risk of dangerous side effects than existing therapies