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On a windswept Norwegian island, one turbine blade was painted black, and the white tailed eagles stopped dying under the rotors
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (733+ words) Off the west coast of Norway, a low green island called Smola sits under a sky full of turning blades. Dozens of wind turbines stand across its treeless ground, spinning day and night in the salt wind. From a distance…...
Anchored to the seafloor by 1,600 pounds of crab gear, a juvenile humpback whale in a remote Alaskan fjord waited for rescuers who had only hours to act
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (491+ words) Anchored by 1,600 pounds of crab gear, a juvenile humpback whale in an Alaskan fjord waited for rescuers with only hours to act. “This configuration effectively hog-tied the whale and prevented it from using its flukes normally, forcing the whale to…...
Scientists filmed a three-legged lion make a record swim across a crocodile-filled channel in Uganda, and the hidden reason he kept crossing reveals what pressure does to a species
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (868+ words) The water was dark and the swim would be more than a kilometre long. Somewhere out in that blackness, hippos surfaced and Nile crocodiles held still beneath the surface, each one capable of ending a lion in seconds. And yet,…...
Scientists discover a lost continent linking South America and Antarctica and name it ‘Antarctandes’ after finding a rare dinosaur fossil
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (576+ words) A scientist examining an ancient fossil unearthed in Antarctica made a surprising discovery during a research expedition. They didn’t just find a dinosaur but raised questions about which continents in the Southern Hemisphere were previously connected through land. A tiny…...
A mantis shrimp the size of your thumb throws the fastest punch in nature, 2,000 times the acceleration of a 330 mph dragster, and it moves so fast the water flashes to vapor and cracks aquarium glass
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (757+ words) Picture a machine that goes from a dead stop to 100 miles per hour in less than a single second. Not a sports car, not a rocket sled, a wheeled machine on a strip of asphalt with a person strapped inside....
They cracked open a cave sealed for a million years and found a flightless parrot, a ghostly rail, and birds that New Zealand had quietly erased from its skies long before humans arrived
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (510+ words) A cave on New Zealand’s North Island sat undisturbed for over a million years, its floor sealed between two layers of volcanic ash. When paleontologist Trevor Worthy’s team began sieving the sediment, they pulled out 21 bone fragments representing 12 bird species…...
Explorers ventured into one of Africa's most remote regions and came back with a glowing blue spider no one expected to find
2+ day, 3+ min ago (590+ words) A number of maps show that large areas of the Earth are uninhabited. That does not mean there are no people. Often, those inhabiting these areas go unnoticed because little, if any, attention has been paid to them. The same…...
One fossil tooth sitting nearly 2 miles deep in the Pacific just moved megalodon off the coast and out into the open ocean, rewriting where the largest shark that ever lived actually hunted
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (724+ words) You probably think you already know the megalodon. The movies made it a monster lurking in the darkest, deepest trenches. Scientists told us the truth was almost the opposite, a coastal creature hunting warm shallow seas, its teeth washing up…...
Every morning you walk under the streetlights on your way to work but you probably don't know they're forming 'death spirals' that trap insects and scientists have only just discovered why
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (658+ words) On a summer night in the Golan Heights, an amateur naturalist came across something that had no name and no precedent: thousands of tiny pill bugs moving in near-perfect unison, circling beneath a pool of artificial light in a vast,…...
Gas leaf blowers were built to clear a yard in 20 minutes, and a study of 160 bird species just found the machines are drowning out the mating calls birds need to breed
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (734+ words) A male songbird starts calling before sunrise, from the same branch, in the same yard. He is not decorating the morning, he is advertising, and a female somewhere in the next block is listening. He has maybe six weeks to…...