Last updated May 2 at 9:45 a.m. ET. As of Friday, May 1, Tennessee has 11,891 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the Tennessee Department of Health. That puts the state 20th in the list of U.S. coronavirus cases by…
This life-like reconstruction of Adalatherium hui from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar shows off the creature’s weird-looking body and plentiful whiskers. The oldest complete mammal fossil from the Southern Hemisphere is puzzling scientists with its mismatched body, strange skull holes…
Two Spinosaurus hunt Onchopristis, a prehistoric sawfish, in the waters of the Kem Kem river system in what is now Morocco. Despite old, out-of-date drawings of long-necked dinosaurs wading in swamps, scientists have long believed that dinosaurs were a land-loving…
Naked mole rats are supremely weird creatures — they don’t need much oxygen, and instead have seizures if they don’t get enough carbon dioxide, the chemical humans exhale when we breathe, researchers just found.The scientists found that the wrinkled rodents…
Viruses like the novel coronavirus are shells holding genetic material. As the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 spreads across the globe, with cases surpassing 284,000 worldwide today (March 20), misinformation is spreading almost as fast. One persistent myth is that this…
U.S. Navy videos of alleged UFO sightings were previously available but had not been officially declassified. Three videos of midair military interactions with UFOs, previously released without official permission by a UFO research group, were declassified and shared online today…