A newly discovered starfish, dubbed the “great starfish,” resembles Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants. (Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition screenshot) A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Argentina has yielded stunning footage of more than 40 previously undescribed species.…
Killer whale mothers train their babies to mimic drowning, unique footage shows. The rigorous training helps the whales develop the skills needed to hunt the largest animal in history. In the recording, a young killer whale (Orcinus orca) plays the…
Scientists believe Acrophylla alta is a record-breaking insect. (Image courtesy of James Cook University) A previously unknown giant stick insect has been found in Australia’s highland rainforests. It may be the heaviest insect ever recorded in the country. The massive…
In addition to searching for food, aye-ayes also use their long middle fingers to extract mucus from the back of their throats through their noses. (Image: torstenvelden/Getty Images) This lemur, native to Madagascar, is an unusual combination of several animals.…
A West African bullfrog in shallow water can use its skin to both breathe and drink. (Image credit: Tim Platt via Getty Images) Unlike humans, frogs and other amphibians don’t need lungs to breathe; their special skin allows them to…
Communities Based on Hadal Chemosynthesis – YouTube See more Ocean explorers have found thriving, alien-like communities of tube worms, mollusks and spiny white organisms on the floor of ocean trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The discovery, made by a…
Filmmakers have captured unique and terrifying footage of young spiders eating their mothers and other older relatives en masse. The footage shows more than 1,000 young African social spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola) leaving their nest in search of food. The babies…
Some members of the Botrynema brucei ellinorae subspecies have growths on their bells (image), while others do not. (Image courtesy of the University of Western Australia) A mysterious ocean barrier is preventing some deep-sea Arctic jellyfish from reaching the Atlantic…
Macadens olsoni had a distinctive curved row of teeth known as a crown denticle. Scientists have found the remains of this ancient shark deep within the world’s longest cave system. A newly discovered shark, pulled from the walls of Mammoth…
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The earliest known ancestors of opossums appeared more than 65 million years ago. (Photo: Leonid Korchenko/Getty Images) With their beady eyes, large ears, sleek tails, and short, stocky legs, opossums are the defining characteristics of marsupials. Despite their unusual appearance,…
Wolves are helping trees regenerate in Yellowstone and the largest interstellar object ever recorded. (Image credit: William Campbell/Sygma via Getty Images/Darryl Seligman et al.) Jump to: Science news this week informs us that the interstellar object passing through our solar…