Earth may be the most unusual planet orbiting our sun. After all, what other can boast life –plant, animal, or otherwise? A close runner-up, however, would be the seventh planet out, Uranus. With temperatures as low as negative 357 degrees… Read More
Well, it’s official: Our brains are being fried by short-form videos (SFVs). Defined as “video content lasting a few seconds to a few minutes,” SFVs rack up billions of views across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts every day. While… Read More
Turkeys are large birds native to North America. The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is known for its fan-shaped tail, gobbling calls, and large wattles hanging from its neck. The birds thrive in a variety of living conditions, such as forests,… Read More
South Florida – primarily the Everglades – is dealing with an exploding population of Burmese pythons. The snake species, now classified as invasive, is causing a significant decrease in the state’s native wildlife population because they are highly successful predators…. Read More
It requires no time travel to experience the Phanerozoic Eon – we’re in it right now! Still, the present eon began an estimated 541 million years ago, so things that happened in the beginning would seem pretty wild to the… Read More
Tasmanian devils are marsupials like kangaroos and koalas, the only large, carnivorous (meat-eating) marsupials alive today. They live exclusively on the Australian island of Tasmania, about 150 miles from the mainland, but at one time they were found throughout the… Read More
Out past Jupiter lies our solar system’s second largest planet, the gas giant Saturn. It is one of the most intriguing members of our system, with its most impressive – but not only – ring system and with its most… Read More
Sloths are dog-sized animals that live in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. They are known for moving very slowly – this is due to their extremely low metabolic rate. Because sloths do not move well on the… Read More
Astronomers have discovered another “moon” orbiting the Sun with the Earth. It’s small and asteroid-like with a track similar to Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Astronomers have named the object 2025 PN7, informally referred to as “Buwan,” which is Tagalog… Read More
Earth may be the biggest of the inner planets, but it has nothing on the giants of the outer solar system. And there’s no planet in the system bigger than the fifth from the sun, Jupiter. But that isn’t the… Read More
There are 36 known species of rattlesnake in the world and dozens of subspecies. They can be found in Central America, South America, and North America. Scientists believe that the rattles on rattlesnakes evolved primarily to ward off bison and… Read More
On this trek through time, we land on a much more familiar planet than in the previous eons. It’s an ancient and still alien Earth, but over the course of about two billion years, the world went through extreme changes,… Read More