WEIRD NATURE
Wildfires that swept through Sequoia National Forest in California in September 2021 were so severe they killed ancient trees that had adapted to survive fires. AP Photo/Noah Berger – By Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton Last updated …
A research station in India is on call 24/7 to aid wayward reptiles in need. Wrangling an eight-foot king cobra is all in a day’s work for Ajay Giri, field director of the Agumbe Reserve Research Station in western India. Mahima A. Jain …
Plastic debris on a beach on Lanai, a sparsely populated Hawaiian island. Matthew Koller, CC BY-ND – Authors Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University Anna Robuck, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Lauren Kashiwabara, Master’s Degree Student in Biological …
(Museums Victoria) – By Jacinta Bowler 2021 Nov 22 – In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. – Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting …
Image of snow covering Hawaiian peaks courtesy https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89356/snow-capped-summits-in-hawaii – By Ryan Adamson, AccuWeather meteorologist Updated 2021 Dec 03 – A potent storm system has begun to wallop the Hawaiian Islands with gusty winds and widespread flooding rain, with blizzard conditions expected at some …
1st Place – Journeys & Adventures. This is My Jungle! A wild elephant attacks a jeep full of people. Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Sergey Savvi View 20 Images – By Rich Haridy 2021 Oct 30 – From skydiving over the pyramids of Egypt …
By Shelly Volsche, Clinical Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Boise State University 2021 Oct 28 – Have you noticed more cats riding in strollers lately? Or bumper stickers that read, “I love my granddogs”? You’re not imagining it. More people are investing serious time, …
“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.” By Craig Childs, The Atlantic – Between a sidewalk and a cinder-block wall grew seven mushrooms, each half the size of a doorknob. Their silver-green caps …
Deer cross roads whenever they wish, but some time periods are higher risk than others. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images – By Tom Langen, Professor of Biology, Clarkson University 2021 Sep 21 – Autumn is here starting Wednesday, and that means the risk …
Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at El Mansoura, university works on renovating the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale called “Phiomicetus Anubis”, that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea, which were discovered in the Fayum Depression …
