Isabela Pereira de Jesushas has become an Internet sensation after a photo of her grumpily looking at the doctor who delivered her in Brazil goes viral on Facebook Isabela Pereira de Jesus looks unimpressed with her own birth (Image: Rodrigo…
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,…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding a couple of things that we do every day — eating and drinking. Why do french fries taste so terrible when they’re…
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…
The tourist has been quarantined in hospital as police surround the H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Adeje to make sure no-one enters or leaves and hundreds of staff and guests are forced to undergo health checks A Tenerife hotel with…
When a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, she repeatedly ran up against one vexing problem: She kept testing positive for alcohol — which disqualified her from a transplant — even though she swore she hadn’t been drinking. …
The group exchanged vows and kisses at a mass wedding despite having to wear blue surgical masks to the ceremony in Bacolod, Philippines – where so far one person has died of coronavirus 220 pairs of couples exchanged vows and…