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Gigantic sunfish that washed up on Oregon beach could be the largest of its species ever found
LiveScience· 2 days agoBeachgoers were stunned when a massive, 7-foot-long (2 meters) fish with a round body, huge fins and...
Goetze: These scary looking insects are a librarian's best friend
Times Record News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFemales care for and nourish newly-hatched young, from 3 to 30 depending upon species, until they...
Meet the 'Echidnapus,' an Extinct Creature That Resembles Both the Echidna and Platypus of Today
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoToday, egg-laying mammals are rare oddballs, with creatures like the platypus and echidna standing...
Orangutan 'stoically waits' for tourists in award-winning photograph 'See No Evil'
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days ago"After the shows, they stoically wait for tourists to take photos with them," he...they are locked...
Zika-like virus found in sloths spreads from Amazon to humans
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSo far it remains unclear whether other insects could be contributing to transmission. “The fact...
Newly discovered polar shipwreck may contain intriguing artifacts
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoPolar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men set off aboard the HMS Endurance in...
Is This the First Recorded Footage of a Colossal Squid Living Freely?
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoJust after 10 a.m. on January 6, 2023, in the Southern Ocean some 680 miles south of Argentina,...
Remembering Ed Stone, JPL Director and Cosmic Voyager
Sci Fi Wire· 2 days agoSYFY’s The Ark imagines what it might be like when humanity finally crosses the threshold of our own...
Vegetarian piranha discovered in the Amazon
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoA brand new species of vegetarian piranha has been discovered by scientists in the Amazon River. Armed with notoriously sharp teeth, piranhas have built...
Toxic Legacies: The Lasting Threat of Historic DDT Dumping off Los Angeles Coast
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoNew research shows that deep-sea fish near Catalina Island are contaminated with DDT-related...