Month: October 2026

An Armored Amphibian That Lived Its Whole Life at Sea? It’s a Fossil First Like no other amphibian we’ve ever heard of. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by…

Spiders Can Rack Up REM-Like Sleep Debt (And May Even Dream), Just Like Humans But what would they dream about? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never…

Scientists Found One of The ‘Chunkiest’ Squid-Like Creatures Ever Known A “thick and peculiar” cephalopod. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don’t miss…

Squid Are Even More Alien-Like Than We Thought, With an Unmatched Ability to Change Genetic Expression An evolutionary adaptation bordering on astronomical. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by…

Tiny Genetic Tweak From An Ancient Virus Might’ve Prevented Chimpanzees From Developing Brains Like Ours Did a virus help split the evolutionary paths of humans and chimpanzees? ScienceAlert stories are…

Mole Rats Get Stressed When Earth’s Magnetic Field Vanishes, Study Suggests The dark side of magnetic attraction. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI.…

Scientists Dug Into a Weird Patch on The Seafloor. They Unearthed a Watery Grave There were bones and teeth. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated…

Cats And Their Owners Seem to Share A Weird, Hormonal Connection How close are you and your cat? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by…

In 2025, Trawlers Suddenly Started Pulling Up Rare Hybrid Crabs in Record Numbers in The Bering Sea. Now We Know Why Scientists were not expecting this. ScienceAlert stories are written,…

Viral Deep-Sea Expedition Found a Real-Life Patrick From SpongeBob, And 57 New Species Hi down there! ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don’t…

Giant ‘Phantom’ Jellyfish Found With Entourage of Fishy Passengers Hitching a Ride Whee! ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don’t miss a story,…

New Genus of Nightmare Spaghetti Worms Found Deep Under The Indian Ocean One of the new species, Terebellosuctoria jimii. (The Australian Museum/Dr Elena Kupriyanova et al.) Oh no. ScienceAlert stories…

Mysterious ‘Golden Tree’ Coral Is So Weird, Scientists Had to Create a New Family on The Tree of Life The newly discovered coral lives in strange conditions that seem inhospitable…

Scientists Uncover D. Rex: Gigantic New ‘King’ Fungus From China Traces Its Roots to 65 Million Years D. rex’s fruiting bodies were discovered in the forests of Yunnan Province. (Song…

Scientists Find a Way to Turn Desert Sand Into ‘Living Sand’ That Holds Water Six Times Longer (Khalifa University) Microbes give sand new strength. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and…

Axolotls Have a Surprisingly Clever Ability, Even in Complete Darkness (Paul Starosta/Stone RF/Getty Images) What’s going on in those little heads? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans,…

Healthy Coral Reversed Bleaching in Its Neighbor With Just 1 Week of Contact (Danny Collins) Emergency medicine for a coral reef. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans,…

Incredibly Creepy Video Shows You a Bee Stinger Like You’ve Never Seen It Before A disembodied bee stinger pierces into a skin-like gel. (Ramirez-Esquivel et al, 2026., CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)…

Dogs Seem to Agree With Humans That ‘Bouba’ Is Round And ‘Kiki’ Is Spiky (Westend61/Getty Images) Do we share a bizarre perceptual quirk? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited…

Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive Within this dinoflagellate plankton is a tiny microbe that acts…

Dozens of Young Hammerhead Sharks Spotted Gathering Off Australian Beaches Scalloped hammerhead sharks in the Red Sea. (Gerard Soury/Photodisc/Getty Images) What are they up to? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked,…

Massive Wave in The Pacific Was The Most Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ on Record Buoy represented in yellow in a visualization of the rogue wave. (MarineLabs) Terrifying stuff. ScienceAlert stories are…

A Little Fish in The Deep Sea Swallowed a Meal Way Bigger Than Itself. Scientists Caught It on Camera. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Bold. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and…

Scientists Find Squid Are Covered in Hair-Like Cells Remarkably Similar to The Ones in Human Ears A hatchling squid imaged with light-sheet microscopy, to highlight its hair cells. (Wang et…

Scientists Find a Strange Chemical Loop That May Have Helped Life Get Started (murat4art/iStock/Getty Images) A fragile sugar from space found a way to protect itself. ScienceAlert stories are written,…

After Almost Going Extinct, Giant Tortoises Now Outnumber People in The Seychelles (Martin Harvey/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) Taking back their island home. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited…

Secret of Orange Cats Finally Revealed After 60-Year Search (Pai-Shih Lee/Moment/Getty Images) This explains a lot. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don’t…

‘Mouth of Hell’ Volcano May Be Refilling With Magma A tourist at Masaya Volcano. (INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images) There doesn’t appear to be any immediate danger – but this…

Sharks Can Hear Sounds Nearly 250 Feet Away, And Know Where They’re Coming From (Reinhard Dirscherl/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) But how are they doing it? ScienceAlert stories are written,…