When it comes to extreme lifespans in the animal kingdom, the bowhead whale stands in a league of its own. Deep in the freezing Arctic waters, this enormous marine...
It started like any other expedition into the remote wetlands of South America. Thick jungle, slow moving rivers, and the kind of silence that makes every sound feel...
When most people think of sharks, they picture a powerful predator lurking beneath the waves. Movies, news stories, and popular culture have helped give sharks a...
Don’t you just love fresh air? And feeling healthy? If only that were possible. That deep, relaxing breath you thought you just took, is full of microscopic...
One of the ocean’s most mysterious predators has finally been captured on camera in its natural deep sea environment. The goblin shark, scientifically known as...
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Christa Pike Survived Two Lethal Injections, but She Wasn’t the Only One to Survive an Execution
Christa Pike, a death row inmate in Tennessee, survived an extraordinary execution attempt involving lethal injection. After two doses of the execution drug were...
Intelligence is a hierarchy. For all of human history, we have sat comfortably at the top. We are not the fastest or strongest species, but our intelligence made us the...
The year is 2061, and two engineers are arguing about the end of the universe. Can entropy, the slow universal decay of everything into disorder, ever be reversed? Can...
At first glance, a sloth hardly looks like an animal you should be afraid of. It moves slowly, spends most of its life hanging from tree branches, and often appears to...
Rise and shine! You’ve been asleep for 1,000 years! And the view outside is not how you remembered it. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels, declining air...
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A 10 m Ancient Reptile Could Return to North American Waters, and It Would Be Hard to Spot
Technically speaking, this marine reptile wasn’t a dinosaur, although it sure swam the Earth alongside many of them. Styxosaurus lived 70 to 85 million years ago, in the...
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A Single U.S. Decision Could Start World War III, and the First Strike Could Come Without Warning
The time for talk is over. Now the biggest countries on Earth are fighting for global supremacy. What would happen if the United States started World War III? Who would...
