It’s International Polar Bear Day! To celebrate the wonders of the largest of the bear species, one that has become an icon of global warming and polar ice melt, here are some stunning photos that reveal just how magnificent these…
The bird’s frozen carcass was discovered by two men hunting for fossil mammoth tusks near the village of Belaya Gora in Siberia. For the last 46,000 years, a small bird that died during the last ice age has sat frozen,…
Spores of the parasite H. salminicola swim under a microscope. Those alien “eyes” are actually stinger cells, one of the few features this organism hasn’t evolved away. When the parasitic blob known as Henneguya salminicola sinks its spores into the…
Female common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) A newfound species of parasitic worm wiggles its way into the brains of baby lizards long before the reptiles hatch. How do the nematodes break into developing lizard brains? They sneak in through the…
The giant coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the biggest terrestrial crab in the world. Coconut crabs, Earth’s biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb. But when these…
Inflation stretched the tiny universe into a macroscopic size and turned cosmic energy into matter. But it likely created an equal amount of matter and antimatter. It’s not clear why but the authors probe one theory that a phase transition…
Two tailbones in a juvenile hadrosaur — a duck-billed dinosaur — bear telltale cavities that hint at tumorous growths. A rare disease that causes tumors in humans produced similar growths in dinosaurs, new research suggests. Scientists discovered unusual circular cavities…
Several water snakes wrap around each other in a “mating ball” in Ohio. A similar ball is being thrown in Florida right now, officials say. Valentine’s Day is behind us, and Cupid has trained his bow on the lakes, rivers…
Its pink manta kind of monday today. The only pink manta in the whole world can be found cruising the shallow waters around lady elliot from time to time, around 8 times in 8 years i think is more like…
A macaque grins at the camera. A team of researchers has found an “engine of consciousness” in the brain — a region where, in monkeys at least, even a little jump start will make them wake up from anesthesia. Consciousness…
Nightmares are the worst. The sheets are damp with sweat. You’re cold, but your heart is racing as if an assailant just chased you down a dark street. It was just a nightmare, you tell yourself; there’s nothing to be…
This image of a muscle tissue cell, magnified 1200X, reveals a cluster of Trypanosoma cruzi organisms. The award-winning movie “Parasite” recently won audiences’ hearts around the world. While that interaction was benign (for most), encounters with real-world parasites are linked…