Articles by

Jake Buehler

The oldest known fossil tadpole was a big baby

Tadpoles have been wriggling in the world’s ponds for at least 161 million years. A newly detailed...

Polar bears are being exposed to more pathogens as the climate warms

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland...

DNA from old hair helps confirm the macabre diet of two 19th century lions

A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the...

This amoeba eats prey like owls do

A microbial predator that stalks the waters of the German countryside envelopes its victims and leaves their...

Mega El Niños kicked off the world’s worst mass extinction

A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in...

Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges...

This spider makes its home in the burrows of extinct giant ground sloths

Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels...

Hundreds of snake species get a new origin story

The ancestors of cobras and related snakes first emerged in Asia roughly 35 million years ago. Many...