Water that is nearly five times saltier than the ocean is deadly to most animals. But in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, scientists have found a tiny roundworm living in these harsh waters. The organism, called Diplolaimelloides woaabi, was recently described in the Journal of Nematology.1 Its discovery gives a clear example of how life can function at the edge of what is possible. More than adding a new species name,... More...
What if every living creature—from coral reefs and cold-water fish to mountain flowers and desert reptiles—followed the same hidden temperature rule? Scientists at Trinity College Dublin recently reported that all life seems to follow a single pattern called the universal thermal performance curve. This curve shows how living things react as temperatures rise and fall.1 The study, published in Proceedings of the Na... More...
Research into God’s living creation is dynamic and always surprising. This is true whether one peers into the deepest reaches of space or dives into the unexpected in laboratory research. Indeed, the vast field of microbiology (bacteria, fungi, and archaea) has barely been touched when it comes to discovering and describing new species of organisms.
In 2011, scientists found a strange and fascinating single-celled microorga... More...
An open access 2026 PeerJ research paper claims that T. rex took 40 years to reach its full adult body size, in contrast to a much shorter previous estimate of 25 years.1–3 This study is arguably the most rigorous dinosaur growth study ever performed, and it was based on more data than any earlier T. rex analyses. Longevity studies in living animals consistently show that animals that take longer ... More...
A new discovery of 18,000 individual dinosaur tracks in the Bolivian El Molino Formation contains the highest number of theropod dinosaur tracks in the world.1 The tracks were spread over nine sites in an area encompassing nearly 1.5 football fields. Remarkably, the site also contains the highest number of dinosaur swim tracks ever reported.1
Publishing in PLoS One, the joint science team from the Uni... More...