Articles by Ethan Denma (9)
This Fuzzy Baby Dinosaur Was Hiding for 100 Million Years in a Rock in South Korea
Meet Dooly, a recently discovered, potentially fluffy dino baby, so cute it was named after an adorable Korean cartoon character.
By Ethan Denma • Apr 22, 2026
Your Eyes Evolved From a 600-Million-Year-Old Cyclops That’s Still Inside You Today
A sedentary, one-eyed worm lost its paired eyes and gained something better: the biological blueprint for every vertebrate retina that's ever existed since.
By Ethan Denma • Mar 5, 2026
From Meme to Marine Crisis: The People’s Mollusk Gets a Name (and a Warning)
A new name put this armored oddity in the spotlight, but the fight to save its trench home is just beginning.
By Ethan Denma • Feb 7, 2026
This Spider's "Necklace" Was Actually Predatory Parasites Feeding
A string of pearl-like beads on a Brazilian spider turned out to be a new species of mite worthy of a Pixar animated horror film.
By Ethan Denma • Jan 28, 2026
She Left Her Wheelchair on Earth and Floated Among the Stars
No one can walk in Space, so what's it matter if an astronaut can on Earth?
By Ethan Denma • Dec 23, 2025
NASA's Plan to Map 20 Billion Stars Hidden Deep in the Milky Way
Humans have never actually seen most of the galaxy that they live in. They will now.
By Ethan Denma • Dec 16, 2025
Ant “Game of Thrones”: A Parasitic Queen Engineers A Chemical Coup D'etat
The queen perfected the ultimate hostile takeover by tricking the workers into murdering their own mother, then seizing the throne.
By Ethan Denma • Nov 18, 2025
The Milky Way’s Glowing Heart: Is Dark Matter Finally Waving Hello?
A stubborn glow at deep in the Milky Way Galaxy’s core just got a lot weirder.
By Ethan Denma • Nov 2, 2025
2 Black Holes Collided, Confirming Predictions by Einstein and Hawking
During their lives, the two scientists each debated the possibility of such a cosmic convergence.
By Ethan Denma • Sep 15, 2025