Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature
WASHINGTON (AP) — How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create...
Panama's city frogs sing more alluring love songs than their country cousins
Panama's tungara frogs take advantage of the relative absence of eavesdropping predators in cities to belt out longer love songs, researchers found. And those fancy...
Gene-editing Chinese scientist kept much of his work secret WATCH
The China-born, U.S.-trained scientist who says he helped make the world's first gene-edited babies said that he had been working on the experiment for more...
Rare conservation win: Mountain gorilla population ticks up
Mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. The International Union for Conservation of Nature updated their status from "critically endangered" to "endangered," a more promising, if still...
Oldest known drawing of an animal is found in remote Indonesian cave
The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, slightly older than similar animal paintings found in famous caves in France and Spain. Until a few...