Stepping into a Ferrari’s sleek cockpit is enough to set anyone’s pulse racing. But what if that was a bad…
Odd Stingless Stingrays Discovered in Amazon
An x-ray of an H. gomesi reveals the hundred-plus strands of cartilage that extend out in all directions from the…
Two planets found sharing one orbit
Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before. Two of…
Bubble-nest Frog, Other “Extinct” Species Found
Last seen in 1937, the elegant tropical frog species (recently pictured near a forest stream) has been rediscovered along India’s…
Skull in Underwater Cave May Be Earliest Trace of First Americans
Alex Alvarez, Franco Attolini, and Alberto (Beto) Nava are members of PET (Projecto Espeleológico de Tulum), an organization that specializes…
Protecting villagers from deadly mudslides
In rural Guatemala, all it takes is a few minutes for tons of heavy mud to plow into a vulnerable…
Wormlike “Walking Cactus” Fossil Found
Fossils of an ancient, spiny creature dubbed a “walking cactus” have been found in China, a new study says. The…
“Thunder Thighs” Dinosaur Thrashed Predators to Death!
A newfound dinosaur species that used its “exceptionally powerful” thighs to kick predators likely had a bad temper to boot,…
Ice Age Child Found
In what’s now central Alaska, one of the first Americans—only three years old at the time—was laid to rest in…
How Love Lasts
Nothing compares to the rush of being newly in love. But even after a decade of marriage or more, some…