Toxoplasma gondii, a “mind-controlling” parasite that causes the disease toxoplasmosis, has been found in public lands in Oahu, Hawaii for the first time, researchers have discovered. Though this parasite was previously found in people and in wildlife on the Hawaiian…
Joe Exotic, featured in the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King,” is the former owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (also known as the G.W. Zoo) in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. He is serving a 22-year prison sentence for crimes including…
Baby leatherback sea turtles make their way to the ocean as soon as they hatch. Baby leatherback sea turtles are doing better than they have in years, now that many humans are opting (or being ordered) to stay off beaches…
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck northern Utah at 7:09 a.m. local time today, causing considerable damage in and around the towns of Magna and Salt Lake City, according to the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake is the largest…
This pointer bomb was dropped into Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 and was photographed in 1977 by Hawaii Volcano Observatory’s geologist Jack Lockwood in 1977. In late February, a hiker on Hawaii’s Big Island stumbled across two unexploded bombs on…
Precautions have prevented coronavirus reaching the German icebreaker Polarstern, drifting with Arctic sea ice near the North Pole. The consequences of the coronavirus outbreak have affected one of the most remote scientific expeditions on the planet: the research ship Polarstern,…