Scientists Just Found ‘Dinosaur Mummies’ With the First-Ever Reptile Hooves
About 66 million years ago, a herd of duck-billed dinosaurs died waiting for rain during a drought. Their bodies baked in the heat, then vanished under a wave of mud ...
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One of the Most Endangered Whales Is Fighting Back From the Brink of Extinction
After decades of bad news, the North Atlantic right whale is finally moving in the right direction. It’s still one of the most endangered whales on Earth, but for the ...
Venomous Snake Bite Captured in Dramatic Slow-Motion Video
Scientists have finally managed to catch a venomous snake strike in full, horrifying detail. Using ultra-high-speed cameras, a research team filmed 36 species of snakes lunging at fake prey, exposing ...
Snake Pee Might Hold the Secret to Curing Gout
If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to clean up after a snake, you might’ve noticed that they don’t exactly pee like we do. Instead of liquid waste, reptiles expel a ...
Green Sea Turtles Have Been Saved From Extinction
This is either bad news with a silver lining or ominous good news, depending on how you look at it. After centuries of being hunted, shelled, eaten, and generally destroyed ...
A Black Bear Broke Into a California Zoo to Hang Out With Their Bears
You don’t often hear stories about animals breaking into zoos for the same reason you don’t often hear about people breaking into prisons. Yes, these are 1-to-1 comparisons. An animal ...
Taylor Swift’s otter tee in ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ film sparks over $2.3M in fan donations to California aquarium
Swifties are going otteryly wild! An otter T-shirt worn by Taylor Swift inspired her loyal fans to shell out more than $2.3 million to a Northern California aquarium – money ...
Birds Are Picky About Which Cars They Poop On. Is Yours on the List?
My beat around here on VICE is pretty wide. I cover a range of topics, with the latest in scientific research published in esteemed scientific journals being one of the ...
Manta Rays Have a Built-In GPS—and Dive to Extreme Depths to Use It
Oceanic manta rays will occasionally dive around three-quarters of a mile below the surface of the ocean. After years of speculation, a team of researchers has just found out why. ...
This Tiny Worm May Be the Key to Human Limb Regeneration
All sorts of animals can lose a limb and walk it off, assuming the limbs they lost weren’t their legs. They don’t freak out because they know they’ll grow them ...
