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Squid swimming in the ocean

Squid numbers have climbed for decades and many blamed warming seas, but a Danish model found warmer water actually shrinks squid populations and the real driver is the overfishing of their predators

By ECONEWS
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September 30, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Octopus clinging to the dorsal fin of a Risso's dolphin off Devon

A volunteer photographer off Devon captured an octopus clinging to the fin of a Risso’s dolphin, and scientists say it shows how the biggest octopus boom in 75 years may be changing their diet

By Adrian Villellas
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September 30, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Illustration of a predatory dinosaur hunting a diving bird

A 66-million-year-old feather found inside fossilized dinosaur poop in Montana belonged to a diving bird eaten by a predator, and its modern design may explain why some birds survived the asteroid

By Adrian Villellas
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September 30, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Purple chat speech bubbles on a translucent screen

According to psychology, the feelings people develop for social AI are real, and being dumped by a chatbot can trigger a small existential crisis

By Adrian Villellas
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September 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Painted underworld figure on a wall of the Etruscan Tomb of the Blue Demons in Tarquinia, Italy

Echoes lasted more than seven seconds inside a 2,400-year-old Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia, and researchers think its builders designed it to unsettle mourners

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Ancient Greek amphorae

Surveys for an offshore wind farm off Italy revealed a shipwreck 1,640 feet deep carrying over 300 amphorae from the fifth or fourth century BC, and scientists want to learn where the jars were made

By Adrian Villellas
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September 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Prairie rattlesnakes and newborns seen on a livestream camera

Livestream cameras in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania caught rattlesnakes giving birth for the first time, with over 60 newborns in Colorado, and the footage shows mothers staying with their pups

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Goat moth caterpillar (Cossus cossus) on the ground

A sudden vinegar smell next to a garden tree can mean a goat moth caterpillar has spent years tunneling through the trunk, and the wood can end up snapping

By Adrian Villellas
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September 29, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Illustration of an American cheetah chasing a saiga antelope

The Ice Age American cheetah was a close cousin of the puma, and fossils from Canada’s Yukon suggest northern populations ate salmon before the species faded through a slow decline, not a sudden collapse

By Adrian Villellas
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September 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Scientists beside the submersible Alvin aboard a research ship

Scientists took the submersible Alvin 3 miles down to the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents in the Caribbean to learn how shrimp find them in darkness, and they suspect an odd eye on their backs

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Bubblegum coral growing on the deep seafloor

Scientists pulled a pale coral from 2,200 feet deep off South America and found a chitin network never seen in this group, which may help bubblegum corals grow branches without a central skeleton

By Adrian Villellas
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September 29, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Crown-of-thorns starfish on a coral reef

The crown-of-thorns starfish is blamed for ravaging the Great Barrier Reef, but a University of Sydney study found coral survived almost 75% of its bites on a protected reef and it may boost diversity

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Visitors looking at finds from the Palmhout wreck in a museum

A corked jug from the 17th-century Palmhout wreck near Texel, in the Netherlands, showed something metallic on X-rays, but archaeologists opened it and found bird feathers, and no one knows why

By ECONEWS
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September 29, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Interior of the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Syria

Museum workers saved about 30,000 archaeological objects from Syria’s Deir ez-Zor as ISIS advanced in 2014 and 2015, and the man who led the rescue warns waiting for perfect conditions can be riskier

By Adrian Villellas
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September 29, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Shipwreck on the seafloor off Queensland surrounded by fish

Scientists mapping a shipwreck off Queensland found 300 holes up to 26 feet wide spread 328 feet around it and suspect fish dug them, a pattern that once helped CSIRO find a ship lost for 74 years

By ECONEWS
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September 28, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Reconstructed hull of the Sinan ship in a museum

Carved marks on timber from the Sinan shipwreck, which sank off Korea in 1323, include a Mongol script, codes from a Chinese classic and Japanese names that show how medieval traders labeled cargo

By Adrian Villellas
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September 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Asian elephant reaching into a transparent box for fruit

Scientists hid fruit in a box and taught 16 Asian elephants in Thailand to reach around it, then moved the opening and found they could drop a habit that no longer worked, though older ones took longer

By ECONEWS
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September 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Gold bracelet fragment with a spider monkey returned to Mexico

An octopus diver found Zapotec jewels on Mexican reefs 50 years ago, and a bracelet fragment with a spider monkey returned from New York may be one of the pieces he sold before others were melted down

By Adrian Villellas
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September 28, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Tsushima leopard cat standing on the ground

On Japan’s Tsushima Island, researchers found leopard cats with short tails and feared domestic cats had crept into their family tree, but genome tests of 16 animals found no trace of that ancestry

By ECONEWS
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September 28, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Wind turbine standing in the snow at a research station in Antarctica

The world’s southernmost wind farm uses just three turbines to help power U.S. and New Zealand research bases in Antarctica, cutting diesel consumption by about 122,000 gallons a year and preventing an estimated 1,242 metric tons of CO₂ emissions despite operating in one of Earth’s harshest environments

By Adrian Villellas
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September 28, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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