Videos: Flamingos Make Vortexes With Their Beaks to Suck Up
If you’ve ever really looked at how flamingos eat, you know how captivatingly peculiar it is. They bob their inverted
Face to Face With an Alligator? Here’s What to Do
An 11-foot alligator that tipped over a canoe and killed a woman in Central Florida on May 6 served as
NASA’s Don Pettit Shot 220 Days of Amazing Photos From
Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That
Ronan the Sea Lion Is Probably Better Than You at
This is Ronan. She’s a California sea lion and she probably has better rhythm than you. Scientists earlier showed that
In Their Final Moments, a Pompeii Family Fought to Survive
One day in the year 79, Pompeii came under fire. The explosion of nearby Mount Vesuvius sent a mushroom cloud
There’s No ‘Undo’ Button for Extinct Species
De-extinction is a distinctly modern fantasy: the extremely appealing idea that we can, with just some pipettes and computers, undo
These Beautiful Birds Form Something Like Lasting Friendships
True friends, most people would agree, are there for each other. Sometimes that means offering emotional support. Sometimes it means
Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere