Clutches of eggs and tiny dinosaur footprints found at a recently unearthed excavation site reveal that dinosaurs may have remained at their nesting site for long enough after hatching to double in size. At 190 million years old, this Massospondylus (a genus of prosauropod dinosaur) “nursery” is the oldest dinosaur nesting site ever discovered. An [...]

As much as some media outlets would like the appearance of hybrid sharks to foster new, incredible shark attacks, the reality of the situation is less fictional and simply a matter of genetics. Last week, a team of Australian scientists announced that they had found hybrid sharks, which are offspring of two different shark species [...]

You tickle someone and it is like a magic laughter button. What is that all about? When we are tickled it is a thrill and turmoil at the same time, but the result is always laughter and a giddy feeling. This silly pastime that gives us so much joy isn’t just for humans. Scientists have [...]

They are tiny and cute and can be seen in countless aquariums. Surely the Guppy is at the bottom of the predator list. Maybe not. A new chemical study puts the guppy high up on the food chain. Even higher than a shark, according to Greg Michalski, an assistant professor at Purdue University. Is it [...]

The above photo is one of the many Snowflake photos taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech with a special snowflake photomicroscope showing snow crystals from around North America. The images are stunning as well as very appropriate for this time of year. Most snowflakes start out as a simple hexagonal crystal of ice and then [...]

Yes, that really is a rare twin rainbow in the image above where two colorful arcs spring from the same starting point. You’ve probably seen the viral video, but have never seen one in real life. They are extremely rare. Now researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have used a 3D computer model [...]

As if we needed any reminders, it just illustrates how Hubble has been one of the most successful scientific endeavors ever undertaken by humans. We must continue to take care of it. The telescope has been serviced five times by astronauts since its start and it has proven itself well worth the upkeep. Throughout its [...]

Huge. Massive. Gigantic. Monstrous. Ginormous. Words fail to describe two huge black holes that may be the largest ever measured. Supermassive black holes inhabit most large galaxies, but these are super-huge light-sucking monstrosities. The first is in galaxy NGC 3842 and it has the mass of about 10 billion suns, while NGC 4889′s monster could [...]

Researchers from University of California Riverside have rediscovered one of the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States; the Cockerell’s Bumblebee. This is exciting news as this species has not been seen in over 50 years. It was found in the White Mountains of south-central New Mexico last summer. It was a rare find [...]

Italian toads can apparently sense earthquakes like the earthquake that struck L’Aquila on April 6th, 2009. We know this because Dr Rachel Grant of the UK’s Open University was studying a toad population at San Ruffino Lake, around 74km from the quake’s epicenter at the time. What she found was interesting. Five days before the [...]

When Australian river turtles lay their eggs in a hole in a sandy riverbank, there is no good reason that they would hatch at the same time. You would expect them to hatch at different times as the eggs at the cooler base of the nest develop slower and should hatch later than the warmer [...]

Ravens, like humans, just want to have fun. They do their survival thing and when the time is right, they seek out companionship for a good time. But how do they go about attracting the opposite sex? According to a new study published on November 29 in the journal Nature Communications, Ravens use their beaks [...]