A screenshot of the newly unearthed thylacine footage. A rediscovered black-and-white video clip is the last-known footage of the thylacine — also known as the Tasmanian tiger — that was recorded before the marsupial went extinct in 1936. The 21-second…
SpaceX is poised to make history today (May 27). The company’s first-ever crewed mission, a test flight called Demo-2, is scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You can watch the…
A scanning electron microscope image of a T cell infected with HIV. The oldest known nearly complete gene sequence from the HIV strain that spread across the world has been found in a tissue sample from the Democratic Republic of…
So, so thicc. UPDATE: The tadpole titan affectionately known as “Goliath” died in 2019, according to a tweet written on May 26, 2020 by herpetologist Earyn McGee; she introduced Twitter to Goliath in 2018, when this article was originally published.…
EPIC!! Check out this incredible vision captured by Mel Aldridge not long ago at Cashmore near Portland! We’re getting plenty of reports. @abcmelbourne pic.twitter.com/1KuldCy6OJMay 22, 2020 Russia launched a military satellite to orbit on Friday (May 22), and the mission…
In a separate incident from the one described here, a loon launches out of the water to scare off a bald eagle. A bald eagle likely thought that grabbing a tiny loon chick would be an easy meal. It wasn’t. …
One of the first questions scientists ask when a new disease appears is, “Where did this come from?” Many viruses jump from animals to humans, a phenomenon known as “zoonotic spillover.” Although it remains unclear which animal was the source…
This is how the ancient humans may have discovered the elephant’s carcass on a lake shore at what is now Schöningen, Germany. Archaeologists have discovered the nearly complete skeleton of an enormous, now-extinct elephant that lived about 300,000 years ago…
Two white dots (circled in red) are actually a new species of parasitic fungus that lives on American millipedes. Researchers named it in honor of Twitter. Researchers have discovered a parasitic fungus that sucks nutrients out of the reproductive organs…
In this artist’s depiction of life 77 million years ago in Alberta, Canada, the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus hunts a young horned Spinops. An adult Spinops tries to interfere, and a Coronosaurus watches from a distance. Tyrannosaurus rex may have been the…
A Madagascan marbled praying mantis grabs at a dangling fly. New slow-motion video shows how praying mantises snatch their prey with lightning-fast, deadly precision. Though these strikes are completed in microseconds, the long-armed predators calibrate their attacks even more quickly…
The baby hippo is mama Mabel’s first calf. The San Diego Zoo recently announced its newest (and arguably cutest) arrival: a newborn male pygmy hippo, born on April 9 to its 4-year-old pygmy hippo mama Mabel. Within hours of birth,…