Hitch-hiking barnacles
Deep time tracking devices
April 02, 2019
Long-distance migrations are common for large whales, but when in their evolutionary past did they begin to migrate and why? Fossil whale barnacles may have the answers
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Smithsonian Year of Music
Where science meets music: a banjo player listens for the songs of katydids
April 17, 2019
What do playing the banjo and recording katydids have in common? We join Sharon Martinson on Barro Colorado Island to find out.
Platypus crab
Fossil crab reveals a new branch in the tree of life
April 25, 2019
By taking on characteristics from another, younger stage in its life-cycle, this fossil crab was probably able to adapt to new conditions.
Hot Protection
Pathogens may have facilitated the evolution of warm-blooded animals
June 11, 2019
Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creatures
Approach angle
Bats use leaves as mirrors to find their prey in the dark
August 09, 2019
Bats can find motionless insects on leaves in the dark. This was thought to be impossible, because the acoustic camouflage provided by the leaves should confuse their echolocation system. Inga Geipel and colleagues discovered how they overcome this problem.
Cover up
Living coral cover will slow future reef dissolution
October 01, 2019
In situ experiment on Great Barrier Reef tests future ocean acidification scenario
Night hunters
Bats use private and social information as they hunt
October 04, 2019
As some of the most savvy and sophisticated predators out there, bats eavesdrop on their prey and even on other bats to collect a wide variety of information about their prey.
Just like mom
Imprinting on mothers may drive speciation in poison dart frogs
October 09, 2019
Imprinting on parental color may be more important than genetics when it comes to the evolution of new species.
Leadership models
What makes a good (primate) leader?
October 17, 2019
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
Bound by blood
Vampire bat bonding persists from the lab to the wild
October 31, 2019
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
