Articles by

Jason Bittel

The largest arthropod to ever live finally has a head 

Two newly discovered fossils are helping scientists wrap their heads around the anatomy of the largest arthropod...

Scientists have just turned giant panda skin cells into stem cells

With roughly 2,000 giant pandas remaining in the wild, scientists have spent the last several decades looking...

Scientists piece together clues in a shark ‘murder mystery’

There are not many animals that can mess with adult porbeagle sharks — or at least, that’s...

In a first, these bats were found to have toes that glow

You’ve heard of jazz hands? Well, these bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet light shines onto the...