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Scorpion Stingers and Claws Are Reinforced With Metal, Study Finds

Comparative maps tie metal placement to how species hunt.

Sony BBC Earth Sets May 8 Premiere for ‘Making Life on Earth’ to Mark Attenborough’s 100th Birthday

AI-Designed E. coli Ribosomes Operate Without Isoleucine

Scorpions Fortify Stingers and Claws With Metals, Smithsonian Study Finds

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

New Fossils Reveal Toothed Platypus With Strong Bite in Ancient Australian Lakes

Giant Cretaceous Octopuses May Have Ruled the Seas, Science Study Finds

Study Finds Crabs’ Sideways Walk Evolved Once Around 200 Million Years Ago

Ancient DNA Study Finds 479 Human Gene Variants Shaped by Selection

Advanced Scans Redraw Muttaburrasaurus With Toothed Snout and Sharper Smell

First Confirmed Egg From a Mammal Ancestor Found in 250-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Reclassified as Nautiloid After High-Energy X-Ray Study

First Mammal-Ancestor Egg Found Confirms Lystrosaurus Laid Eggs

Dragonfly Red Vision Uses the Same Molecular Switch as Mammals

Scientists Name New Tarantula Genus With Record-Long Male Palps

Mummified Permian Reptile Reveals Oldest Rib-Powered Breathing System

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Fossil Reclassified as a Nautiloid

Late Ediacaran Fossils in China Push Back Origins of Major Animal Groups

Chinese Fossil Trove Pushes Complex Animal Origins Into the Ediacaran

Oldest Chelicerate Fossil Dates to 500 Million Years Ago