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As grandiose as we might think our civilizations have become, we are but the latest entry in the long chronicle detailing life on Earth. We humans share this planet with fellow organisms whose vast numbers completely tower over our own. We borrowed this planet from its previous inhabitants from eons ago and whose lives were written on the soil-turned-rock on which they were laid to rest. Modern Sciences urges its readers to contemplate our planetary co-inhabitants, both past and present.
Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls
Sandhill cranes flying above the Platte River in Nebraska. shannonpatrick17/Flickr, CC BY Miguel Jimenez, Colorado State University With…
New discovery: fossilised giant zebra tracks found in South Africa
An illustration of two giant Cape zebras alongside a much smaller plains zebra. Maggie Newman Charles Helm, Nelson…
Extinct but not gone – the thylacine continues to fascinate us
Menna Elizabeth Jones, University of Tasmania Human life on Earth is utterly dependent on biodiversity but our activities…
New Study Explores the Effective Hunting of Extinct Sabertooth Marsupial
A recent study by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Instituto Argentino de Nivología,…
New Evidence Suggests Nitrogen Played a Key Role In the Rise of Complex Life
Scientists from Virginia Tech have found evidence that biologically available nitrogen may have played a vital role in…
How Did Insects Manage to Learn to Fly?
Hundreds of millions of years ago, invertebrates like insects were among the first to venture out of the…
What Makes Us Human?
Scientists say our human DNA is roughly 96-99% identical to that of chimpanzees, our closest living primate relative…
COVID, bird flu, mpox – a virologist on why we’re seeing so many viruses emerge
Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Lindsay Broadbent, University of Surrey From the widespread outbreak of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in 2022,…
How we created the first map of an insect brain – and what it means for our understanding of the human brain
Tomatito/Shutterstock Michael Winding, The Francis Crick Institute Imagine trying to navigate an unfamiliar city but you’ve lost your…
Kerosene-Eating Yeast Could Help Clean Up Environmental Pollution
Scientists have discovered that a species of yeast called Saccharomyces exiguus can use kerosene as a source of…