New York Times Science News

1. Fiona the Pregnant Sea Reptile’s Fossil Hints at the Birth of a New Ocean

   An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

2. Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks

   The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by other world powers may alter the environment.

3. How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Species They Are

   Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and learn what they really are.

4. Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might.

   Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?

5. Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling Through Solar System

   3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy.