Recently, researchers have reported on the world’s “highest-dwelling mammal,” the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse, observed upon a dormant volcano 6,739 meters (22,110 feet) above sea level.¹ While the discovery of birds at greater altitudes is not surprising, “that mammals can live at these heights is astonishing, considering there’s only about 44 percent of the oxygen available at s

The preserved carcass of a “prehistoric” cave bear has been discovered in melting permafrost on an Arctic Russian Island.^1,2 Reindeer herders discovered the remains of the adult cave bear on Bolshoy (or Great) Lyakhovsky Island, part of the New Siberian Islands off the coast of northern Russia.² This is the first time that a whole bear carcass with preserved soft tissues h

In 2020, Hungarian zoologists described the hybridization of a Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish.¹ Some sources have reported the scientists created a “franken-fish”—as indeed it looks quite bizarre.² Researchers, however, are calling it the sturddlefish—with sharp fins and an elongated nose.³

Is a dinosaur still a dinosaur if it has flight feathers? A new study points to some fascinating evidence that contradicts the idea of feathered dinosaurs and confirms created kinds.

August is an important month for sunflowers—those gigantic, bright-yellow flowers with brownish, round seed heads bordered by radiating yellow ligules (petal-like rays) that resemble a shining, summer sun.^1,2,3 A recent report in the Chesapeake Bay Journal details some of the humble sunflower’s splendor, and those details should remind us that God’s bioengineering genius is