Discover the top stories from Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, 2026, including ancient blood found for the first time in a dinosaur fossil ...

Learn about the Amsterdam Island cows, who against all odds took over a subantarctic ocean island deep in the southern Indian Ocean. In 1871, a farmer dumped five cattle on a small, inhospitable ...

Learn more about pumice rafts, what causes them, and how they can impact ocean life.

Discover how children who live closer to parks and wooded areas performed better on attention tests, adding evidence that ...

Learn how lumps of brain tissue grown in space could help scientists better understand an aggressive form of cancer.

Learn more about the skull-shaped Vega Island and how climate change may be affecting it.

Learn about a faraway cosmic feature that looks like a cat's tail made of "fluffy" dust grains that may have scattered after ...

Learn why Neanderthals were likely stronger than us, and that they likely weren't brutes.

Learn more about Gerrothorax maritimus, an ancient amphibian that may have lived in a fully marine ecosystem.

Learn how old museum fragments are helping researchers trace the origins of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, and why proposed ...

Learn how Haast’s eagle became New Zealand’s giant moa hunter, and why ancient DNA linked the extinct predator to a ...

Animals like sea turtles, salmon, pigeons, and sharks can use Earth's magnetic field to cross entire oceans. How can they tap ...