Future wars will be won by agility, integration, and indigenous tech: DRDO ScientistIndia's military future depends on fast innovation and integrating national resources. Prateek Kishore highlights that warfare is changing,...
19 May, 2026, 10.06 PM IST
Why scientists are racing to protect animal traditions before they disappearWildlife conservation is shifting focus. Experts now emphasize preserving animal traditions, behavior, and social skills. This new approach...
19 May, 2026, 04.10 PM IST
Scientists say Jurassic Park’s T. Rex missed one major detail about the dinosaur’s skinRecent fossil evidence suggests adult T. Rex likely sported scaly skin, not a full feather coat. While some smaller relatives had filamento...
12 May, 2026, 04.42 PM IST
Ancient wooden tools discovered by scientists are changing what we know about early humansArchaeologists unearthed 430,000-year-old wooden tools in Greece, pushing back the timeline of sophisticated human craftsmanship. These han...
08 May, 2026, 05.33 PM IST
Inside the Changing Social Lives of Animals Across the WorldAnimal societies are dynamic, with relationships evolving due to environmental shifts and competition. A global research initiative, 'Being...
21 Mar, 2026, 03.12 PM IST
What Scientists Found at Boxgrove: How a 500,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Tool Is Rewriting Early Human HistoryA remarkable discovery in southern England has rewritten history. Archaeologists found a 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer at the Boxgr...
11 Mar, 2026, 11.15 AM IST
Why Are Some Elephants Born Without Tusks Despite Their Natural Need for Them? The Evolutionary Puzzle UncoveredField rangers observed fewer tusked female elephants. Decades of ivory hunting in Gorongosa National Park favored tuskless survivors. This ...
09 Mar, 2026, 12.47 PM IST
Scientists Have Noticed a Peculiar Transformation in Animals That Live in Isolated IslandsIslands often exhibit unique evolutionary patterns, with species adapting to limited resources and predator absence. Large animals may shri...
08 Mar, 2026, 02.47 PM IST
Scientists Discover Elephants Use “Names” — And They Actually Respond When CalledElephants may use 'names' to address each other, new research suggests. Scientists found that wild African savanna elephants use specific v...
22 Feb, 2026, 09.55 PM IST
Shovel-Tusked Elephants’ Teeth Puzzle Solved by PaleontologistsShovel-tusked elephants, once an evolutionary puzzle, are now understood to have used their unique tusks and teeth to efficiently process s...
08 Feb, 2026, 02.48 PM IST
After elephants, monkeys show ability to 'name' each other, reveals new studyResearchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that marmoset monkeys use specific vocal calls named 'phee-calls' to identif...
31 Aug, 2024, 05.46 PM IST
Tales of tooth: How elephant tusks evolved to adapt to changes in climate & dietary habitsModern elephants' diets consist of copious amounts of tough, fibrous, often low-quality fodder.
31 Oct, 2023, 09.46 AM IST
Elephant bird Vorombe titan named largest ever birdThe first species to be described, Aepyornis maximus, has often been considered to be the world's largest bird, researchers said.
26 Sep, 2018, 12.48 PM IST
Complete genome of elephants mappedScientists have sequenced the complete genome of one of the world's most iconic animal families - elephants, and their relatives mammoths a...
27 Feb, 2018, 12.36 PM IST
- Zebras, giraffes, impalas and other evolutionary conundrums (Book Review)
Title: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories; Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor); Publisher: Pr...
22 Dec, 2016, 10.37 AM IST
After genome sequencing, scientists find 95% similarity in Asian, African elephantsScientists have also sequenced the 'transcriptome' – the complete set of RNA from a population of cells - of the Asian elephant for the fir...
18 Dec, 2015, 02.16 PM IST
Genome sequencing brings woolly mammoth clones closerA mammoth gene involved in temperature sensation was resurrected in the laboratory and its protein product characterised.
05 Jul, 2015, 03.31 PM IST