Rare footage shows dolphins using empty seashells as tools to catch fish, a skill called ‘shelling’
Video footage shows dolphins using empty seashells to catch fish and a calf potentially learning the hunting technique…
Scientists Uncover New Clues to a Long-Standing Bonnethead Shark Mystery
A detailed study of Florida bonnetheads found that their unusual sex-specific head shapes emerge through growth rather than…
We just got a glimpse at what NASA’s Skyfall helicopters will look like in action
If you just can’t wait for NASA’s new Mars helicopters to get to work, you can now see…
Sandhill cranes will be fair game for hunters in 2 Quebec regions, parts of Ontario this fall
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On 1 March 1982, a Soviet probe called Venera 13 touched down on Venus and was expected to last just 32 minutes in 465°C heat — it survived for 127 minutes, drilled and analysed a soil sample, and sent back the first colour photographs ever taken from the surface of Venus.
At 03:57:21 Universal Time on 1 March 1982, Venera 13 settled onto Venus after an atmospheric descent lasting…
R-Selecting Tiny Probes To Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described…
The blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood through an aorta about nine inches across, wide enough to fit a human head but not the crawling child of the popular legend
A blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds — roughly a small piano — and when the animal…
NASA plans three more 2026 lunar task orders, including an orbiter to follow LRO
NASA’s June Moon Base update said it would solicit proposals for additional lunar deliveries, including a South Pole…
Greek wildfire kills two people as aircraft deployed to blaze at Belgian nature reserve | Wildfires
Two people have died in fires on the Greek island of Salamis as firefighting aircraft were called on…
U.S. Space Force and Japan complete QZSS hosted-payload launches to strengthen monitoring of geosynchronous orbit over Indo-Pacific
The U.S. Space Force and Japan have completed the second and final launch under their Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted…
‘Giraffe’s head’ sinkhole stunt backfires in South Africa
When politicians from South Africa’s main opposition party put a stuffed giraffe’s head into a sinkhole, their plan…
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
On one night in August 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope recorded a faint point of mid-infrared light…