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A tiny European native oyster can filter about 200 liters of seawater a day and release up to 2 million larvae at once, yet its reefs have collapsed across much of Europe and UK populations have fallen by around 95%

Europe's native oyster filters 200 liters of seawater daily, but populations fell 95% since the 1800s; reefs are now regrowing.

Archaeologists have uncovered two tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany dating back about 40,000 years

Two tiny mammoth-ivory birds survived 40,000 years in a German cave, preserving remarkable details of Ice Age life.

Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a chapter from millions of years ago when mollusks spread across what would eventually become Chesapeake Bay

Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a chap

An eighth-grade student gave 200 red harvester ants three hours to explore a maze filled with fake leaves, rocks and tangerine, then moved the landmarks around and watched the insects change where they went

An eighth-grade student gave 200 red harvester ants three hours to explore a maze filled with fake leaves, rocks and tangerine, then mo

Six years after paralysis, brain implants restored movement and touch; the bigger surprise was what remained when the implants stopped

Brain implants helped a paralyzed man grasp and drink after six years, raising questions about how the brain adapts to treatment.

A 661-pound wall of 1,482 magnets can deflect solar protons without power or cooling, offering a surprisingly simple solution for protecting astronauts in deep space

A wall of 1,482 neodymium magnets could shield astronauts from solar radiation during space travel without electricity or cooling.

A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy, dragging a completely submerged crab trap onto the beach by its rope and then spending three minutes figuring out how to open the bait cup

A wild wolf pulled a submerged crab trap ashore in British Columbia, revealing a remarkable display of problem-solving.

Moken children in the Andaman Sea free-dive without goggles and see clearly underwater, a skill years of practice, not dolphin-like biology, trained into their eyes

Moken children see clearly underwater without goggles, and studies show training, not dolphin-like biology, explains it.

IceCube's detector spreads 5,160 light sensors across a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice between 1,450 and 2,450 meters deep, using Earth itself as a shield to catch neutrinos arriving upward from the northern sky

Buried under Antarctic ice, the IceCube observatory uses Earth as a filter to catch neutrinos and trace their cosmic sources.

A metal detectorist found a silver coin from Magnus Barefoot's reign, the first of its type in Norway, but it had been deliberately remade as jewelry, suggesting medieval economies shifted after coins lost value

A Viking coin found in Norway becomes the first of its type. Later remade as jewelry, showing medieval wealth and economic systems.

Romania declares an energy alert as the Danube falls too low to cool its nuclear reactors, a climate-driven power crisis

The Danube fell to a third of its July average, forcing a Cernavoda reactor offline and Romania onto a 30-day energy alert.

Leonardo DiCaprio and others fund a USD 200 million project to recover 100 species on the brink of extinction, a genetic rescue plan

A $200 million project will try to recover 100 species across 30 countries, and the test comes long after the launch fades.

A wildlife photographer captured a humpback whale giving birth, a moment so rare and raw that no aerial footage existed before

The first known aerial footage of a humpback birth off New South Wales shows calving happening far south of the old map.

French Pyrenees brown bears show signs of recovery with twelve cubs and a twenty-nine-year-old male recorded among six hundred eighty-five tracks and sightings

Scientists recorded 685 bear signs in the French Pyrenees, revealing a growing population with at least 12 cubs from seven litters.

Two anglers in France land a nearly seven-foot catfish in the Saône River after a twenty-minute fight and release it back alive

A fisherman in France landed a nearly 7-foot European catfish after a 20-minute battle, then released the giant back into the river.

Tiny ocean swirls smaller than a coin alter climate, carbon, and nutrients within a single year through deep mixing of water layers

Fungal diseases wiping out bat populations could collapse ecosystems and threaten crop pollination across North America.

Antarctic Bottom Water shrunk by 2.9 percent between 2002 and 2023, a hidden ocean mass that fills forty percent of the global sea and is losing volume

Antarctic Bottom Water volume shrinking four times faster since 2015, affecting global ocean circulation and climate.

Google's secret project uncovered ― Meet Makani, or how to 'invent' 600 kW of energy

The Google-backed company Makani was hiding a secret project within the depths of Google’s innovation lab that focused on replacing wind turbine…