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The deep sea discoveries and sightings of 2021 are amazing
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (1362+ words) The deep sea glows. Giant, phantasmagorical creatures dwell in the dark water. And when marine researchers lower robots into these depths, they're almost always spotting something rare or previously unknown to science. "There's so much left to explore and find…...
Huge rotting sea creature that washed ashore is horrifyingly turning the water red
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (344+ words) Something has washed up on the shore of an Indonesian island. It's huge, it's floating -- and it's rotting. A large 15m (49.2 ft) long sea creature was discovered off Hulung Beach, on Seram Island, Indonesia. The creature was discovered by 37-year-old local…...
See wild, stunning creatures just found in the unexplored deep ocean
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (160+ words) The deep sea enchants. Every deep sea expedition returns with footage of new, rare, and/or alien-like creatures. One of the latest such journeys, undertaken by marine researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s 272-foot research vessel Falkor, just brought back…...
David Attenborough-voiced AR app lets you fill your home with extinct animals
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (315+ words) Seeing a saber-toothed tiger on your TV screen is all very well and good, but what about sitting next to one on the couch? A new David Attenborough-fronted app, Museum Alive, aims to let you do exactly that, using AR…...
The world's largest fish is very mysterious and endangered
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (648+ words) Don’t let the name fool you. Whale sharks are not whales. They are sharks. And they're the largest fish species on the planet. They can grow as long as a city bus. What's more, scientists recently concluded that whale sharks…...
Researchers map the koala genome in the name of saving the species
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (757+ words) Koalas, the tree-dwelling marsupials found in eucalyptus forests and woodlands across Eastern Australia, is not just a cute and fluffy fascination for tourists. It's also a perfect research subject for a group of dedicated scientists working to ensure the animal's…...
The angry Australian animal Australians are actually scared of
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (503+ words) Australia has a reputation for terrifying, deadly animals, from brown snakes to redback spiders to buff red kangaroos that can disembowel you with their feet. Fortunately, most of these hell creatures will won't start anything if you just leave them…...
Fat Bear Week: Bears sense the world in an extraordinary way
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (895+ words) Inside a bear's snout lies an extraordinary world. And lying above a bear's great muzzle, scrunched under the brain, sits the olfactory bulb — a tube-shaped structure that connects a bear's profusion of nose nerves to other parts of its brain....
Shark skin may get corroded by the acidifying oceans
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (666+ words) When shark scientists handle sharks, they often come away with "shark burn." "It will give you an abrasion," said Brendan Talwar, a research associate at the Cape Eleuthera Institute who studies sharks. "It's like sandpaper." "It's a bit far away…...
Yes, big spiders are spreading in the U.S. No, they're not flying.
18+ hour, 8+ min ago (739+ words) They're not after you. And they don't "parachute" from the sky. Instead, the ways Joros will often expand to new regions in the U.S. are rather mundane. "It's more likely one of the spiders will hitch a ride on someone's car,…...