A cast of a juvenile T. rex nicknamed Cleveland next to the skull of a young adult, known as B-rex, on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t born the massive beast known for…
Mysterious scars on this whitetip shark suggested it had battled with the elusive giant squid off Hawaii. A rare, multispecies brawl unfolded recently in the deep ocean off the coast of Hawaii. In one corner, an oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus…
Western rattlesnakes emerging from a winter den. Just like the hordes of mountain bikers, hikers and trail runners that migrate from their comfortable couches to more open spaces in spring, western rattlesnakes are also on the move, emerging from deep…
An image taken from space of an oil spill in the Arctic Circle. Oil is depicted in this animation (shown in red) traveling in the Ambarnaya River on May 31 and June 1. Two European satellites have spotted a catastrophic…
Ophichthidae is a family of sinuous fishes that are also known as snake eels. The species pictured here, Aprognathodon platyventris, is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. Snake eels, a group of slender, sinuous fish, can perform a gruesome escape…
Hundreds protesting against fascism under the slogan “Fascism advances if it is not fought,” in Madrid, Spain on Nov. 18, 2017. As long as there has been fascism — a political movement that stokes nationalism and racism, and uses violence…
This 2002 photo of a giant larvacean shows the animal (in blue) and the inner filter of its mucous structure it built around itself. Hundreds of feet below the sea surface, teeny-tiny sea creatures secrete snotty blobs from cells on…
Police and onlookers stand on the banks of the Velliyar River in Palakkad district of Kerala on May 27, 2020, as a dead wild elephant is pulled from the water. The elephant died following injuries it sustained after eating a…
The last meal of the 3,000-lb. (1,360 kilograms) “sleeping dragon” dinosaur is so beautifully preserved, scientists now know exactly what the armored beast ate before it died about 112 million years ago, a new study finds. Extraordinary circumstances left the…
In this reconstruction of the Cambrian brachiopod Neobolus wulongqingensis, tubelike parasites cling to its shell. Ancient Cambrian fossils have preserved the oldest known example of parasites in action. More than 500 million years ago in what is now southern China,…
Scientists recorded a dumbo octopus at depths of up to 4.3 miles (6,957 meters) beneath the Indian Ocean. Here, another dumbo octopus is seen foraging at a depth of 3.6 miles (5,760 m). Explorers have captured video of the deepest-known…
SpaceX and NASA made history, sending astronauts from U.S. soil toward the International Space Station. It’s the first crewed mission launched from the U.S. since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. And you can watch the mission live here.…