WEIRD ANIMALS
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 …
By Nick Lavars – – Scientists are hailing the mucus that coats fish as a potential goldmine of antibiotics. (Credit: magone/Depositphotos). The growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is seeing scientists get more and more creative in their search for new drugs that might …
By Ben Coxworth – – Researchers put a zebra-pattern coat on a domestic horse, as part of the study. (Credit: Tim Caro/UC Davis). It was just last month that we heard about a study which indicated that fewer horseflies landed on mannequins with …
A team of Japanese and Russian scientists has successfully “reawakened” cells from a 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth, according to a study published recently in Scientific Reports. The cells came from an extraordinarily well-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in Siberian permafrost in 2012 and nicknamed “Yuka”. Using …
