More from Laura Baisas (Page 10)

a walrus calf with a cut on its right eye is cared for by two technicians

Abandoned Pacific walrus calf rescued in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

dead bird specimens with blue and green plumage in museum storage

All living birds share an ‘iridescent’ ancestor

By Laura Baisas

TOP: A relay participant dives off the blocks in the Women’s 4 x 100m final during the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. BOTTOM: American Alex Walsh swims in Arena’s Powerskin Primo.

The evolution of Olympic swimwear: From wool ‘costumes’ to tensoelastic race suits

By Laura Baisas

a purple race track, with whit lane lines

Paris Olympics’ purple track is made with crushed mussel and clam shells

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an long cylindrical arthropod. it has big blue eyes, a body that looks like a taco shell, several short red legs, and a tail

This taco-shaped critter is a big (evolutionary) deal

By Laura Baisas

four red hens in a line. two are looking straight ahead, one is looking right, and the other is looking left. they have an expression that reads as suprise

Not to ruffle feathers, but chickens blush

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two mouse-like animals in a forest, with a stegosaurus walking by and a mosquito flying over them

Baby teeth reveal surprisingly long lifespans of small Jurassic mammals

By Laura Baisas

various bird bones out on a table

Neanderthals ate birds. But how?

By Laura Baisas

a peacock butterfly on a pink plant. its wings are primarily red, with black, yellow, and blue circles

Butterflies and moths suck up pollen with static electricity

By Laura Baisas

five chimpanzeess sitting in tall, green grass

Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos

By Laura Baisas

a brown dog looks up with a longing expression

Your dog can probably smell your stress

By Laura Baisas

a flat map of the planet jupiter, showing reddish-orange lines and the planet's great red spot

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps shrinking

By Laura Baisas

a bee kicks away an ant

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas

a baby crocodile hatches from an egg, surrounded by other eggs.

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

By Laura Baisas

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii

Two Pompeii skeletons reveal a new story of death at mega disaster

By Laura Baisas

a 3D rendering of three early humans butchering a giant armadillo

Early humans butchered enormous armadillos

By Laura Baisas

a long, dark brown millipede crawling on brown and green leaves

Expedition finds a 10-inch long millipede lost to science for 126 years

By Laura Baisas

several snakes entwined together on a rock

Ssssso many snakes: Watch a ‘mega-den’ of rattlesnakes in real time

By Laura Baisas

Beluga Whale Live Cam brings the ‘canaries of the sea’ to your screen

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of newly discovered crocodile relative named Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis on the coast of an ancient ocean called Panthalassa.

Say hello to the surprising crocodile relative Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis

By Laura Baisas

a thick mammoth foot preserved in permafrost. it is round and dark brown

Woolly mammoth ‘jerky’ preserves 52,000-year-old fossil chromosomes

By Laura Baisas

a male lion sits in a tree

Lion brothers take risky swim across crocodile-infested channel

By Laura Baisas

several stone circles marking gravesites in a field in norway

Stone circles unearthed in Norway mark ancient children’s graves

By Laura Baisas

Located in the foothills of a rock emerging from a green field

Iron Age plant remains tell new agricultural story in east Africa

By Laura Baisas

circles of red, blue, and green bacteria

‘Bacterial glitter’ shimmers without pigments

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large shark jumping out of the water and eating a winged dinosaur

When the ocean got hot, the sharks bulked up

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a blue exoplanet with white swirls near a sun-like star

A nearby exoplanet reeks of rotten eggs

By Laura Baisas

a nearly complete skeleton of a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago. it's head is round and shaped like a toilet seat

This giant tetrapod sucked in prey with its ‘toilet seat-shaped’ head

By Laura Baisas

a striped cat scratching a grey armchair

Why some cats scratch more than others

By Laura Baisas

a small grey and black reef fish swims

Fish in Earth’s hottest water defy the odds

By Laura Baisas

two ants face each other in a lab. one has purple dye where a wound was treated.

Watch a carpenter ant chew off another’s wounded leg to try to save its life

By Laura Baisas

Ritual sticks uncovered in Cloggs Cave date back 10,000 to 12,000 years.

Evidence of 12,000-year-old cultural ritual unearthed in Australia

By Laura Baisas

green and red grapes

If dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct, we may not have delicious grapes

By Laura Baisas

a fun moon rises over an italian city

July’s skies sizzle with the Buck Moon and a meteor shower

By Laura Baisas

Five of the comb jelly species featured in a new study on how their cells adapt to water pressures. Red coloration as seen in the two specimens at right is common among deep-sea animals.

Comb jellies won’t give into the extreme pressures of deep-sea life

By Laura Baisas

a marine biologist and an actor fist bump while sitting on a dive boat in the ocean

Actor Anthony Mackie and marine biologist Jasmin Graham talk sharks

By Laura Baisas

five statues depicting the high dignitary Nefer and his wife (Abusir, Egypt).

Ancient Egyptian scribes suffered bone damage from working long hours in hunched positions

By Laura Baisas

the tall and straight pillars of creation as seen with two space telescopes. these celestial bodies are finger-like figures of gas and dust

Ethereal Pillars of Creation come to life in new 3D visualization

By Laura Baisas

the wreckage of an ancient greek shipwreck underwater, with two divers exploring it

Nuts, bones, and wood help date a 2,000-year-old Greek shipwreck

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view of the lava flows from the Sundhnúkur volcano on June 3, 2024 on the Reykjanes peninsula near Grindavik, Iceland. The volcano has erupted five times since December 2023.

Iceland’s ‘unparalleled’ volcanic activity could continue for decades

By Laura Baisas

a blue lobster in an aquarium tank

Why blue animals are so rare in nature

By Laura Baisas

a large lizard with yellow spots in the dirt

Giant lizards could keep flesh-eating maggots off Australia’s sheep

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a gold griffin with the body of a lion and the head of a bird of prey

We’re (probably) wrong about origin of griffins

By Laura Baisas

eight catapult stones on grass

Archeologists uncover 800-year-old stone catapult shots used in English Civil War

By Laura Baisas

The ancient oak circle which emerged from the shifting sands at Holme next the Sea in Norfolk. The ring of oak tree trunks with a large upturned tree at its centre is believed to be 4,000 years old & is said to be of great archaeological importance.

What is ‘Seahenge’? Bronze Age worshipers may have used the structure to try to extend the summer

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two merging quasars in space. they are round yellow and orange disks, with a black hole in the center. white light is coming out of the center of the black hole.

In a first, astronomers spot merging quasars from the Cosmic Dawn

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of three long-necked and marine reptiles swimming with four paddle shaped limbs in an ancient sea

This giant polar reptile once stalked an ancient super-ocean

By Laura Baisas

a long and lean sei whale swimming in the ocean

Dozens of rare, endangered whales spotted off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard

By Laura Baisas

a tardigrade. these microscopic animals have right legs and round bear-like bodies with a small pointy appendage in front.

Tardigrade genes edited with an advanced CRISPR technique

By Laura Baisas

a pink galaxy shaped like a koi fish

Space ‘koi fish’ caught by telescope

By Laura Baisas

still from the animated film "inside out 2." red anger, purple fear, yellow joy, blue sadness, and green disgust meet with new emotions. Envy is teal, anxiety is orange, and embarrassment is pink.

The science of awkward puberty brain from ‘Inside Out 2’

By Laura Baisas

two dogs cuddle together in a bed in an animal shelter

Shelter dogs appear ‘less stressed’ when paired with a buddy

By Laura Baisas

Bronze Age ruins on the Greek island Aegina, surrounded by sparkling blue waters and mountains

Ancient, surprisingly well-preserved purple dye uncovered in Greece

By Laura Baisas

a black widow spider on a leaf. the spider is black with a red marking on its abdomen.

New experimental black widow venom antidote uses human antibodies

By Laura Baisas

twin baby elephants stand under their mother

Set of rare elephant twins born in Thailand

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile dolphin lifts its head out of the water

Young dolphins mimic sex as part of play

By Laura Baisas

two juvenile elephants greet each other near a watering hole. their trunks are interlocked.

African elephants use name-like calls to address each other

By Laura Baisas

A colorful adult female Joro spider. These arachnids are native to parts of Southeast Asia.

No, ‘flying’ venomous spiders are not coming for you this summer

By Laura Baisas

a school of yellow and white swim near a reef

Fish swimming together fare better in turbulent waters

By Laura Baisas

a tiger shark swimming in the ocean (left). a small spiky mammal with a pointy nose canned an echidna (right) on land

Unlucky shark vomits up hedgehog-like animal, shocks scientists

By Laura Baisas

blue swirls swirling around white clouds and a brown surface on jupiter

Surprisingly, storms on Jupiter and Earth have something in common

By Laura Baisas

a large bird with blue plummage and orange eyes called a cassowary

The world’s most dangerous bird is at risk of extinction

By Laura Baisas

yaks and sheep grazing on grassland with mountains in the distance

Bronze Age nomads used cauldrons for blood sausage and yak milk

By Laura Baisas

an american flamingo. the bird has pink and white plumage with a black beak

A ‘pink wave’ of flamingoes settles into the Sunshine State

By Laura Baisas

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