The plague’s feline victims were largely adult cougars, but one 3-month-old kitten did die of the disease. The plague is notorious for killing tens of millions of people throughout history, but a new study has revealed that the deadly bacteria…
Scientists have discovered six entirely new coronaviruses lurking in bats in Myanmar. These viruses are in the same family as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is currently spreading across the globe; but the researchers said the newbies aren’t closely related genetically…
An image shows the coils of the long siphonophore. Underwater explorers found a 150
A submersible dubbed Jiaolong in the Mariana Trench on June 27, 2012, in the western Pacific Ocean. Plastic
The sun set over the right shoulder of the Sphinx during the spring equinox this year. The Sphinx had a “distinctive astronomical” moment with the sun during the spring equinox when, in a shining flourish, the sun set on the…
An assortment of weathered Lego bricks pulled from the ocean. The ocean around the U.K. is strewn with Lego bricks. Some of them were flushed there; one U.K. insurance company estimates that children flushed some 2.5 million Lego pieces down…