The Ancient Ancestors of Blue Whales Hunted the Oceans With Surprisingly Sharp Teeth
An analysis of a 34-million-year-old whale skull uncovered on Seymour Island in Antarctica is now providing some important new clues about cetacean evolution.
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An analysis of a 34-million-year-old whale skull uncovered on Seymour Island in Antarctica is now providing some important new clues about cetacean evolution.
Studies have consistently shown that doctors die from suicide at a higher rate annually than people in any other profession.
This might be a dream of yours, until you actually see the caked sludge littering the highway.
Given the broader implications, the researchers hope their study can serve as a wake-up call for other researchers to begin looking closer at third-hand smoke.
A rock that formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter seems to have somehow travelled to the orbit of Neptune, according to a new observation.
The finding could potentially guide physicists toward ways to solve some of science’s biggest remaining mysteries.
Don’t worry, your sniffles probably don’t mean your skull is leaking fluid. Probably.
It should be a growing concern for meteorologists and climatologists who study hurricanes.
It’s fascinating to think about how cosmic movements might affect Earth’s climate in a tangible way.
Presumably what he would've wanted.
Don't worry, it's nothing nefarious. They just want to learn how to build a whole legion of jumping spider-robots. Perfectly normal.
The US Department of Energy is set to fund the most sensitive search yet for theorised dark matter particles.
This was geophysics made real, through our shared experience of hearing a record-making rocket launch that none of us could see.
Jupiter is in opposition today, meaning it’s exactly opposite the sun in the sky, like the Moon when it’s full.
Do these movements actually mean anything? Or is this just the species’ way of distracting us from whatever it is they’re really feeling?
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet whose salt-rich atmosphere is completely devoid of clouds.
