The bodies of great white sharks that have had their liver removed with what has been described as “almost surgical precision” have been washing ashore along the coast of South Africa for the last five years, with the latest batch of carcharodon corpses being discovered earlier this year. While theread more
Researchers have recovered what has been found to be the world’s oldest DNA from sediments in Northern Greenland, with the two million-year-old genetic fragments revealing a landscape from a time when the now-barren Arctic landscape was lush with a variety of flora and fauna. Beating the previous record for ancientread more
After decades of slumber, the world’s largest active volcano has awakened, with a new eruption starting at the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa late last month; and although there is no danger of an imminent eruption from the caldera at Yellowstone, it has been discovered that there is more magmaread more
In yet another case of convergent evolution, octopuses appear to have developed a type of genetic structure that is associated with complex brains, a trait shared by vertebrates such as humans, a potential key to understanding how two species that are so vastly different could develop remarkably similar intelligences. The sharedread more