Plants and Animals

Making A Megalodon: The Evolving Science Behind Estimating The Size Of The Largest Ever Killer Shark

Making A Megalodon: The Evolving Science Behind Estimating The Size Of The Largest Ever Killer Shark

The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark swimming in the oceans of the world. Scientific evidence megalodon lived 16 million to…
17 Previously “Extinct” European Plant Species Brought Out Of Extinction

17 Previously “Extinct” European Plant Species Brought Out Of Extinction

According to the IUCN Red List Guidelines: “Taxation is abolished if there no reasonable suspicion that the last person died.” However, a recent study published…
Box Jellyfish Sting Kills Teenager, First Fatality From One In Australia For 15 Years

Box Jellyfish Sting Kills Teenager, First Fatality From One In Australia For 15 Years

A teenager in Australia has died after trapped by a box jellyfish, the first documented box jellyfish in Australia to die in 15 years. A…
Female Frogs Have “Noise-Cancelling Headphones” In Their Lungs, Tuning Out Unwanted Males

Female Frogs Have “Noise-Cancelling Headphones” In Their Lungs, Tuning Out Unwanted Males

Many species of male frogs rely on mating calls to attract mates. However, even after the woman falls in love with the sexist ribbit, true…
Octopuses May Feel Pain Physically And Emotionally, Similar To Mammals

Octopuses May Feel Pain Physically And Emotionally, Similar To Mammals

People are able to feel a wide range of pain from scratching your feet in the winter morning – from grief to hunger and perhaps…
Good Times In The Galápagos As Island Welcomes 36 Endangered Giant Tortoises

Good Times In The Galápagos As Island Welcomes 36 Endangered Giant Tortoises

After growing up in the safe haven of a responsible captive, a group of endangered giant tortoises (Chelonoidis chatamensis) finally graduated to the Galapagos Islands,…
Woolly Mammoths May Have Lived Alongside The First Humans In New England

Woolly Mammoths May Have Lived Alongside The First Humans In New England

New research has shown that furry mammoths and humans can live side by side in modern-day England. Scientists have used carbon dating to find out…
Orangutans and Bonobos At US Zoo Are First Great Apes To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Orangutans and Bonobos At US Zoo Are First Great Apes To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Not only have people lined up to get vaccinated against Cowvid-19, some of our close evolutionary relatives have also received their shots and are making…
The Russian Scientist Who Tried To Create A Human-Chimp Hybrid (In The Worst Way Possible)

The Russian Scientist Who Tried To Create A Human-Chimp Hybrid (In The Worst Way Possible)

There are certain people who should never ask to follow their dreams. Hitler for example or anyone interested in growing up one day, study science…
New Breeding Site For World’s Most Endangered Seal Discovered In Cyprus

New Breeding Site For World’s Most Endangered Seal Discovered In Cyprus

Cartography We have enough up-to-date information about the Earth’s terrain, but as we see the land expand from space, we can still miss the finer…
Nearly 2-Meter Glow-In-The-Dark Shark Is Largest Known Luminous Vertebrate Yet

Nearly 2-Meter Glow-In-The-Dark Shark Is Largest Known Luminous Vertebrate Yet

If you have been late with our plant and animal feeds, you have chosen plenty of animals to join the “Glimpse of Darkness” club. From…
Lone Wolf Makes Record Journey From Oregon To California

Lone Wolf Makes Record Journey From Oregon To California

The only wolf to run a marathon from northern Oregon to the Sierra Nevada is a wolf in the south that has traveled to California…
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