#Evolution

Articles (8)

• 🇺🇸 Creature thought to be world's oldest octopus isn't an octopus after all — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

  Related: #Paleontology, #Scientific Revision
• 🇺🇸 The Jellies That Evolved a Different Way To Keep Time — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be...

  Related: #Biological Rhythms
• 🇺🇸 Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

  Related: #Conservation
• 🇺🇸 Disorder Drives One of Nature’s Most Complex Machines — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action. The post Disorder...

  Related: #Cellular Biology
• 🇺🇸 ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: We Are the Future — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.

  Related: #Film criticism, #Human history
• 🇺🇸 Newly discovered dinosaur species was a fish-eater with a huge horn — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  The semi-aquatic dinosaur, <em>Spinosaurus mirabilis, </em>was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.

  Related: #Paleontology, #Prehistoric life
• 🇺🇸 Meet Africa's 'hell heron': New spinosaurus species that hunted fish discovered in Sahara — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shape...

  Related: #Paleontology, #Prehistoric life
• 🇺🇸 The Westminster Dog Show Turns 150. Here's What Has And Hasn't Changed Over Time — 30/01/2026 [USA]

  The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is celebrating a a significant milestone on Saturday.

  Related: #Tradition, #Canine sports