20 February 2023
Many animals enter into long monogamous relationships to raise offspring, but we know they can break up – and new research suggests global warming is sometimes to blame
15 July 2022
Some bacteria living in the Southern Ocean can't adapt to temperatures 2°C higher than what they can usually survive, and other organisms could face similar limits adapting to higher temperatures
11 February 2022
Our award-winning festival, New Scientist Live is back to stimulate, challenge and inspire with some of today’s biggest scientific discoveries and ideas.
12 November 2021
An analysis of 77 tropical bird species in the Amazon shows that all of them have shrunk and a third developed longer wings over the past 40 years
7 September 2021
Some endotherms, commonly called warm-blooded animals, have grown larger wings, beaks or tails to increase their surface area, which helps them stay cool as the world warms
11 November 2020
The snake-like lizards of the Brachymeles genus began with four legs, lost them about 62 million years ago, and then 20 million years later regained them to deal with a wetter climate
29 July 2020
From beginnings as skulking, cat-sized reptiles, dinosaurs came to rule Earth for 100 million years – but how? Their secret wasn’t teeth or claws, but something deep inside them
24 May 2018
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries
10 November 2017
Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know
9 October 2017
East Africa became colder and drier around 75,000 years ago, just when modern humans were apparently migrating out of Africa
