WEIRD ANIMALS
“You want to be nice to someone who’s going to be important for you.” By Yasmin Tayag – Among the countless shitty things humans have done recently, we’ve revived Nazism, attempted to cover up egregious sexual abuse, and resurrected the threat of nuclear …
By Matt Kennedy – Artist’s interpretation of the newly-named Suskityrannus hazelae. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin). In 1998, a 16 year old boy with a passion for paleontology unearthed a near-complete skeleton of one of Tyrannosaurus rex’s cousins in New Mexico. It was a defining moment …
Insects are ‘the glue in nature’, says Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, underpinning the food and water we rely on. By Damian Carrington Guardian Environment editor @dpcarrington – A Notch-horned Cleg, a type of horsefly. ‘While we humans have doubled our population in the past 40 …
By Loz Blain – A quarter of the world’s species are under threat of extinction. This tarsier appears to think he could be one of them. (Credit: igorot/Depositphotos). Earth stands to lose a massive 25 percent of its biodiversity, warned UNESCO Director-General Audrey …
By Adam Williams – Tij was delivered by boat in roughly 400 pieces and assembled on site. (Credit: Katja Effting). Resembling an oversized egg in a nest, the Tij (or Tide) is a bird observatory in the Netherlands designed by Dutch firm RAU …
By Loz Blain – A recreation of what Simbakubwa Kutokaafrika may have looked like in the wild. (Credit: Mauricio Anton). After sitting in a drawer in a Kenyan museum for more than 40 years, a set of fossilized bones has introduced the world …
By David Szondy – Artistic reconstruction of Callichimaera perplexa. (Credit: Elissa Martin/Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History). An international team of scientists under Yale paleontologist Javier Luque has discovered a 95 million year-old “platypus crab” that may throw into question how you define …
Not everything was destroyed in the fire. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Gilbert Bochenek. – Three hives containing a population of over 180,000 bees were left unscathed by the devastating fire. – Despite the roof of the historic Parisian cathedral being shrouded …
By Rich Haridy – In a new study, low-intensity ultrasound has been used to disrupt a cognitive process known as counterfactual thinking in macaques monkeys. (Credit: hecke06/Depositphotos). An incredible new study suggests that low-intensity ultrasound can be used to target very specific brain …
By Michael Irving – – An artist’s rendition of Peregocetus pacificus, a newly described species of amphibious, four-limbed whale. (Credit: A. Gennari). Whales weren’t always the giants of the sea that we know today – their ancestors plodded around on land before …
