But whilst undeniably (and impressively) old, living through such events as the Aztec Empire and the exploding whale incident of 1970, they are colonial organisms. The oldest individual (non clonal) ...

Hognoses can also become prey for a lot of other species, such as raccoons, opossums, other snakes, and birds of prey. To ...

Missions such as Galileo around Jupiter and Cassini around Saturn have discovered over the last three decades that the giant ...

If you’ve ever seen a branch locked inside a crystal-clear popsicle, then congratulations, you’ve seen glaze ice. It can form ...

It all began with the discovery of ancient owl pellets – a gross but normal part of their digestion where they essentially ...

The Vault is approaching its one-year anniversary, so now is the perfect time to take another look at the stories that hide ...

Pulsars emit a lot of radiation, in particular high-energy gamma-rays and radio waves pulses. That light is invisible to JWST ...

The animal with the strongest bite ever documented in scientific literature is the saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ) ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

Glaciers are ancient accumulations of ice on top of mountains and frozen peaks that gently slump downhill over time, like a ...

"A single collision could have catastrophic long-term consequences," the authors explain, and we would not have long to avoid ...

Almost a thousand years since its formation, the Crab Nebula sports complex shells of plasma, filled with tendrils, filaments ...