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Avalon/Contributor/Getty Images Why Scientists Just Shot Lasers at Charles Darwin’s Priceless Specimens
Museums around the world hold more than 100 million fluid-preserved specimens, many of which are too fragile or dangerous to open.
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Xinhua News Agency/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Butterfly Scientists Just Grew in Space
The butterfly hatched while aboard the station and then lived in orbit, adapting to microgravity with seemingly no trouble.
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Pito Kung/Getty Images This Giant Python in Indonesia Is Officially the Longest Snake Ever Recorded
A snake so long it practically breaks the human brain has officially entered the record books.
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Humberto Ramirez/Getty Images 7 Animals That Do Truly Disgusting Things to Defend Themselves
Because nature is metal as heck.
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Nicole Marschall/Getty Images The 6 Deadliest Snakes on Earth (and Why You Shouldn’t Panic About Them)
As real as the reputation may be, super venomous snakes aren’t out to get you.
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diegograndi/Getty Images The 10 Scariest Sea Creatures That Actually Exist
These 10 sea creatures that are very real, very strange, and more bizarre the longer you think about them.
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Ng Aik Hong/Getty Images Scientists Found a Way to Identify Fish by the Sounds They Make (Yes, They Make Sounds)
Yes, you read that right.
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@news_az/X A Woman Tried to Take a Selfie With a Snow Leopard. She Almost Lost Her Face.
Yeah, don’t do this.
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Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001910 These Rock Climbers Accidentally Made an 80-Million-Year-Old Discovery
And thanks to bad timing 80 million years ago and good timing on a climb, we have another clue as to what happened on our planet long before we were here.
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MEDITERRANEAN/GETTY IMAGES Why Scientists Are Rethinking What They Know About Greenland Sharks
Everything about them screams old and ancient. But what’s really going on?
