Snout bubbles let anoles stay submerged in streams for up to about 20 minutes. Some anole lizards have a newfound superpower: They can breathe underwater by trapping air in a bubble on their snouts. What’s more, these reptiles can stay submerged for nearly 20 minutes by rebreathing exhaled air inContinue Reading
State-run boarding schools for Indigenous children operated in Canada between 1863 and 1998. Unmarked graves that may hold the bodies of more than 160 Indigenous children were found this month on Penelakut Island, previously known as Kuper Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Representatives of the Penelakut Tribe found the gravesContinue Reading
Between Jan. 1 and July 2, 841 manatees died near and off the coast of Florida. A record-breaking number of manatees have died this year in Florida’s waters, mostly due to starvation, according to recent news reports. Between Jan. 1 and July 2, 841 manatees died near and off theContinue Reading
A well-preserved fossil is a “missing puzzle piece” for the evolution of dinosaur respiration. A new illustration of a dinosaur exhaling a puffy cloud might look like the animal is vaping. But in reality, the artwork is simply depicting a dinosaur breathing on a chilly morning. And it turns outContinue Reading
Scientists grew nearly defect-free fibers of frozen water with counterintuitive properties Try to bend an icicle and it’ll snap in two. With its tendency to crack into shards, ice’s reputation for being stiff and brittle seems well-established. But thin, pristine threads of ice are bendy and elastic, scientists report inContinue Reading
Hundreds of valuable metal objects in the grave hint at the individuals’ importance and wealth. Men and women living in West Central Africa 500 years ago dramatically changed their looks by removing their front teeth, ancient skulls reveal. Archaeologists found the centuries-old altered skulls deep underground in a cave thatContinue Reading
They were originally fierce predators the size of a small ostrich. A bizarre group of raptor-like dinosaurs, known as alvarezsaurs, drastically shrank around 100 million years ago, transforming from ostrich-size predators that hunted early mammals and baby dinos to ant-eaters the size of a chicken, according to paleontologists. Alvarezsaurs wereContinue Reading
It was the hottest June in American history, and the fourth-hottest worldwide. If the melting power cables in Portland, Oregon, weren’t enough of an indication, new satellite data confirms what many sweat-drenched Americans could have guessed: June 2021 was the single hottest June on record in North America. The newContinue Reading
RSV is typically more active in the fall and winter. Parts of the southern U.S. are seeing off-season spikes in a respiratory virus called RSV after the lifting of public health measures put into place to slow COVID-19 spread, public health experts warn. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is typicallyContinue Reading
A withered old male hornet shows that repeat invasions are the not-so-new normal Fingers crossed for finding nothing: July marks the main trapping season to check for Asian giant hornets still infesting Washington state. The first of these invasive hornets found in North America in 2021, in June, was probablyContinue Reading