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.…
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…