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Rocket Engines Recovered From Their Watery Graves
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, is on a mission to retrieve the Saturn V rocket stages and engines from a watery “sculpture garden,” as he calls it, at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Florida. In...
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Peering Into Trilobite Eyes to See the Evolution of Vision
They might not seem like the most expressive eyes you’ve ever seen—but the beady eyes of extinct trilobites have a lot to say. Recently, they’ve given us some new insights into the evolution of...
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Saturn Gets Drenched by Its Eroding Rings
Ethereal, stately Saturn, it turns out, deals with a problem we Earthlings are quite familiar with this time of year: rain. The planet gets an Olympic-pool sized quantity of water dumped on her each...
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I Can See Clearly Now, the Brain is Gone
It’s been a big month for developments in transparency. First: the Antarctic icefish, whose native habitat is 3,200 feet deep in the waters off the coast of Antarctica. Earlier this month, Tokyo Sea...
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Menagerie of Animals Launched Into Space
Last Friday, a crew of geckoes, forty-five mice, eight Mongolian gerbils, fish, snails, and plant seedlings were rocket launched on the Bion M1 into space, for the longest animal space experiment to...
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Life Could Have Evolved in Frigid Underwater Ice Gardens
New evidence indicates that chemical gardens which form beneath the Antarctic ice could be the origin of coldwater life. Brinicles, first captured forming on film by the BBC in 2011, are hollow tubes...
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An Icy Critter Cocktail Helped Baleen Whales Evolve
One way to understand how the ecosystem of the Antarctic originated is to look at its very base: tiny organisms called dinoflagellates, the little creatures that attract bigger creatures, and thus in...
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How Marine Stowaways Hatch Alien Invasions
In our increasingly globalized world, it’s not just commodities that get shipped around—ocean critters all too often tag along. Now scientists have developed a model to predict which ports and shipping...
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Honeybees and Dolphins Help Humans Find Lethal Mines
Dolphins Make Naval History! Dolphins have uncovered a marvel of naval history: the 125-year-old Howell torpedo, the first torpedo that could be released into the ocean and follow a track to smash a...
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How Animals Evolved to Live in Low-Oxygen Locales
The leisurely pace of a sloth or koala ambling through the forest can certainly seem desirable, but those habitats and lifestyles aren’t for everyone. For the animals tasked with surviving in some of...
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