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Lorenzo Marchetti The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
It’s a butthole. It’s functional. It’s unglamorous. It’s also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built.
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Imstepf Studios Llc/Getty Images Scientists Found a Strange Link Between Junk Food and Cigarettes
Researchers say ultra-processed foods are engineered to hijack the brain’s reward system, much like cigarettes.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko What Built the Dusty Red ‘Snowman’ Floating in Space?
When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Arrokoth on New Year’s Day 2019, it captured humanity’s most distant close-up of a primordial object.
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Yaorusheng/Getty Images Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Oceans: Set Them on Fire
But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes… for good?
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3I/ATLAS Why Did Comet 3I/ATLAS Get So Much Brighter After Flying Past the Sun?
3I/ATLAS will soon fade from view as it exits the solar system, but not before bowing out with one final display of its classic weird-o behavior.
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AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/ Contributor/Getty Images This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old ‘Smiling’ Fossil Isn’t What It Seems
Britain’s Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand.
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Three Lions/Stringer/Getty Images CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice
Researchers found that children who were sacrificed to appease the gods were drunk and drugged for up to a year before they died.
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Elena Panfilo/NSU Press Service Mummified Skull Reveals Iron Age Woman Survived Brutal Jaw Surgery
The scans showed the woman’s right temporomandibular joint, your TMJ hinge near the ear, had been destroyed.
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Laurent Emmanuel/Contributor/Getty Images The Moon Is Shrinking. Here’s What That Means for the Future.
The moon, it seems, is most definitely shrinking. And that means it’s going to be experiencing a lot more tectonic activity in its future.
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Deep Sea Research Centre/inkfish/Kelpie Geoscience A Shark Was Filmed in Antarctic Waters for the First Time Ever
Now that researchers know this shark is there, they have a slightly better idea as to where to place their cameras.
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bauhaus1000/Getty Images Archaeologists Found Proof of 2,200-Year-Old War Elephants in Spain
If real, it would finally give us the first tangible relic of the elephants that helped reshape Mediterranean history.
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Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images How Bird Poop Helped Make Ancient Peru a Superpower
Researchers have long suspected that bird droppings may have helped nations like Peru dominate their regions in ancient times.
