So-called 'frontier' diseases like scarlet fever or leprosy were thought to have accompanied European colonists to the Americas. Ancient DNA is telling another story. www.sciencealert.com/a-bolivian-m...

"It really amazes me that anyone is concerned that men will become extinct in 5 or 6 million years," evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves told me. "I think we'll be lucky to make it through the next century!" www.sciencealert.com/is-the-y-chr...

Jane Goodall accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. 🧪 www.sciencealert.com/how-jane-goo...

I love my job 😂♥️🧪https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-buttholes-may-be-the-reason-we-now-have-fingers-study-finds

ScienceAlert: 'Massive Study Links 8 Genetic Signals to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' '"For decades people with ME have asked to be heard, and now science is catching up."' #DecodeME www.sciencealert.com/massive-stud...

Archaeologists have discovered the tools of a mysterious new hominin from more than a million years ago on a neighboring island to the ‘hobbit’ ancestors. We now have two big questions to solve: Who were they? And how did they make a deep sea crossing? www.sciencealert.com/ancient-tool...

Since 1958, humans have visually explored between 0.0006 and 0.001 percent of the deep seafloor -- Earth's largest ecosystem. Even if we ramp up explorations, researchers predict it could take ~100,000 years for us to see the whole damn thing. www.sciencealert.com/weve-only-gl...

Avian influenza is a devastating setback for Patagonia’s Southern elephant seals. It may take a century before the colony of Península Valdés returns to its 2022 numbers, says a new paper co-authored by WCS Argentina. 🌎 bit.ly/42PpTJm

"It's a bit like the guy in the Chinese zoo who had dogs that he painted to be pandas. And everyone you know fell for that story." www.sciencealert.com/did-dire-wol...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica. Like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat below to the elements... ... and to the prying eyes of an ROV 👀 www.sciencealert.com/antarctic-ic...

Whenever I see Salvinia, I'm mesmerized. Not only because it's a float fern (yes, fern), incredibly beautify, also I always try my best to look at those egg beater looking hair clusters that hold up water drops so elegantly. #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌸🌱

It's hard to imagine birds of paradise looking any flashier than they already do with their bright, elaborate plumage. But just wait til you see them under ambient UV and blue light. They even glow from the insides of their mouths!!! 😱 🧪🦉 www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...

In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...). Well... Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...

A colossal ice core just drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, going back 1.2 million years. Each meter holds ~13k years of deep, compressed history. The whole sample could extend across the Golden Gate Bridge. 🧪🌏 www.sciencealert.com/oldest-unbro...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – big-headed cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago 🧪 www.sciencealert.com/large-head-p...

Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs. Suddenly, you find yourself in a dense, swampy forest, with insects buzzing between flowers, ferns, and conifers. Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica. www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-a...

Here’s where you come in. We have enough funding to bring some staff to bioGraphic, but not the whole team. We’re looking everywhere for financial support, and to bring more people over, we need to raise US $150,000. Will you help us? www.biographic.com/hakai-magazi... bsky-sos&c_src2=hakai

“A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #mimetism www.sciencealert.com/these-insect... 🧪 🦗 🐙

I spoke to space plasma physicist Jamie Jasinski about the perils of sunning Uranus 🧪

I was today years old when I found out the true meaning of honeydew 🤯

Brachycybe millipede dads can cart their kiddos around like a minivan! This genus has one of the few known cases of obligate paternal care in arthropods. Dads groom the eggs and protect them from fungal infections, desiccation, and predation. 🌿🧪🐛

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This weekend I put together a worm bin with instructions that suddenly and inexplicably stopped at a major cliff hanger… 🫣what’s going to happen??

Went to visit the flying fox colony in Melbourne last weekend with @tesskou.bsky.social and stumbled across another creature trying to find baby bats

The first ripe tomato in my garden is not very happy with my care 😭

Writing about deep sea worms today, and for some reason, I can't stop smiling?? Wonder what it could be ... 📷: Shimada et al., Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2023 zse.pensoft.net/article/1090...

Today, we're excited to launch our 6th *free* Science Journalism Master Class: How to Own a Science Beat. www.theopennotebook.com/science-jour...