Biology

First census in the largest bonobo stronghold

Bonobos mostly stay in trees and build nests in them to sleep. © Christian Ziegler/Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Biology ...

Ancient worm from the Precambrian found

Uncus fossil from Nilpena Ediacara National Park. The numbers correspond to the coordinates of that fossil on the surface of the fossil bed. Right:...

Mystery about the smell of carrion from the titan root solved

A heat map of the corpse flower shows that the titan arum's central, towering flower stalk warms to about eleven degrees Celsius above ambient...

Fossil pterosaur meals

Artist's impression of a pterosaur in a coastal habitat in what is now southern Germany during the Early Jurassic period. © SMNS, L. Reinoehl ...

Feathered winners of the Middle Ages

The stork apparently only conquered some areas of distribution in Europe as a result of agricultural change. A stork's nest in Bergenhusen, Schleswig-Holstein. ©...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to protein researchers

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors researchers who have made significant progress in the elucidation of protein structures. © Christoph Burgstedt / iStock...

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