The skull of the newly described ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus duelferi. About 246 million years ago, a pregnant sea monster died before her due date, perishing with at least three little unborn monsters inside her, a new study finds. This creature, an…
During the 1860s, Republicans, who dominated northern states, orchestrated an ambitious expansion of federal power, helping to fund the transcontinental railroad, the state university system and the settlement of the West by homesteaders, and instating a national currency and protective…
Last week, a 12-year-old Dutch girl went into labor while on a school field trip. Neither she nor her family were previously aware that she was pregnant. Teachers rushed the girl to Groningen Hospital in a northern part of the…
A solar prominence and associated filament tunnel, photographed March 12. Telescope images captured of the sun on Monday (March 12) show what appears to be a planet-size shadowy object tethered to the sun by a dark filament. In the image…
Hi science fans, I learned a striking, disappointing fact yesterday: Harvard University’s astronomy department has graduated 425 Ph.D.s since 1925. How many of those degrees were awarded to Black astronomers? One. There are too many of these same statistics across…
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…