More from Laura Baisas (Page 13)

a human wears a fox mask while feeding a baby fox in its care

Wildlife care staff wear fox masks to care for orphaned kit

By Laura Baisas

a group of black and white ring-tailed lemurs sitting in green trees.

Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females

By Laura Baisas

a cicada in a tree

Cicadas pee in jet streams like bigger animals

By Laura Baisas

A potentially new squid species found off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

two termites trapped in an oval shaped bit of amber

These extinct termites have been stuck in a mating position for 38 million years

By Laura Baisas

fish swimming by a healthy coral reef

Sandy ‘Reef Stars’ help bring life back to coral reefs hurt by dynamite fishing

By Laura Baisas

rocky cliffs with pockmarks where the fossils were found

World’s oldest known fossilized forest discovered in England

By Laura Baisas

a deep sea worm with feathery appendages

Newly discovered deep-sea worm moves like a ‘living magic carpet’

By Laura Baisas

scans of the anatomy of different animals

Take a look inside 13,000 animals–no scalpel required

By Laura Baisas

A silver gar fish with a long snout.

Meet the new king of the ‘living fossils’

By Laura Baisas

Firey lava spews out La Cumbre volcano on March 3, 2024 in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. La Cumbre volcano, located on Fernandina Island of the archipelago, erupted on Saturday, March 2.

Volcano on island in the Galapagos spews lava into the sea

By Laura Baisas

Sun rises over tall sand dunes. The Erg Chebbi region of the Sahara desert in Morocco. The region is home to the 984 foot tall Lala Lallia star dune.

The mysterious ‘star dune’ in the Sahara is on the move

By Laura Baisas

M74 aka the Phantom Galaxy shown in a combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. It is one of the celestial objects featured

Space Telescope

Listen to three breathtaking NASA images

By Laura Baisas

An orca whale hunts a great white shark. Blood is seen near the orca's mouth.

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Three eggs in a nest, while a bald eagle attends to it.

Watch: Three bald eagles could hatch any day now

By Laura Baisas

A doctor puts a bandage on the upper arm of a senior citizen.

CDC recommends Americans 65 and over get additional COVID-19 vaccine

By Laura Baisas

The full moon rises behind the Castel del Monte in Andria, Italy on March 7, 2023. March's full moon is also called the worm moon.

March’s skies shine with the worm moon, a bright Mercury, and penumbral lunar eclipse

By Laura Baisas

A capuchin monkey with a long tail walking along a tree branch.

Why we don’t have tails

By Laura Baisas

Shelled and unshelled hazlenuts on a wooden table.

Humans have been eating hazelnuts for at least 6,000 years

By Laura Baisas

A small translucent fish with its organs visible swims in a tank.

This tiny fish is louder than an airplane taking off

By Laura Baisas

A syringe with a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine next to its packaging.

How to check your measles vaccination status amid outbreak

By Laura Baisas

An orange Chaunacops fish swimming in the waters of Chile’s Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.

See the strange new species discovered near Chile—with the help of a deep-diving sea robot

By Laura Baisas

The discovery image of the new Uranian moon S/2023 U1 using the Magellan telescope. Uranus is just off the field of view in the upper left, as seen by the increased scattered light. S/2023 U1 is the faint point of light in the center of the image with the arrow pointing to it. The trails are from background stars.

Astronomers discover new moons orbiting Uranus and Neptune

By Laura Baisas

Sea cucumbers and fish feeding at a coral reef.

Sea cucumbers are the ‘scum suckers’ corals desperately need

By Laura Baisas

An artist's illustration of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis with a long neck and sharp teeth swimming alongside prehistoric fish.

240-million-year-old ‘Chinese dragon’ fossil reveals 32 separate neck vertebrae

By Laura Baisas

A combination of a Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A and the compact argon source. The faint blue source in the center is the emission from the compact source detected with the James Webb Space Telescope. Outside this is the stellar debris, which contains most of the mass. The inner bright “string of pearls” is the gas from the outer layers of the star that was expelled about 20,000 years before the final explosion. The fast debris is now colliding with the ring, explaining the bright spots. Outside of the inner ring are two outer rings, presumably produced by the same process as forming the inner ring. The bright stars to the left and right of the inner ring are unrelated to the supernova.

Space Telescope

JWST detects evidence of a neutron star in fiery supernova remains

By Laura Baisas

Odysseus passes over the near side of the moon. The photo was taken while the spacecraft was orbiting the moon.

‘Odie’ makes space history with successful moon landing

By Laura Baisas

A photograph taken in the spring of 2016 of the debris field from an October 2015 landslide extends over the toe of the Tyndall Glacier and into Taan Fjord.

A new algorithm could help detect landslides in minutes

By Laura Baisas

Two sea lampreys. They have circular heads with rows of teeth and a suction cup mouth at the center.

You might have more in common with the sea lamprey than you realize

By Laura Baisas

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

The stone tool was glued into a handle with an adhesive that is made of liquid bitumen, with the addition of 55 percent ochre. It is no longer sticky and can be handled easily.

Neanderthals likely used glue to make tools

By Laura Baisas

A single humpback whale calf swimming in the waters off of French Polynesia.

We finally know how baleen whales make noise

By Laura Baisas

The planet Earth as seen from space, aboard the Odysseus spacecraft.

‘Odie’ snaps its first images of Earth on its way to the moon

By Laura Baisas

Giant Antarctic sea spiders can grow up to 20 inches wide.

Giant Antarctic sea spiders’ reproductive mystery solved after 140 years of confusion

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. This quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the universe to date.

Fastest-growing black hole eats the equivalent of one sun a day

By Laura Baisas

A purple and white carnivorous plant called Arisaema thunbergii growing in a forest. It has a tube and cup shaped flower and uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats.

Bug-munching plant turns insect nurseries into death traps

By Laura Baisas

A graphic rendering of an asteroid in space, with a close up on where water molecules are on the surface.

Water molecules detected on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Tridentinosaurus antiquus was discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931 and was believed to be an important specimen for understanding early reptile evolution.

Famous 280-million-year-old fossil is partially fake

By Laura Baisas

A common vole in a wooded area.

First Alaskapox death reported: What you should know about the virus

By Laura Baisas

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida a

‘Odie’ is en route for its potentially historic moon landing

By Laura Baisas

A clear glass tea cup with steaming brown tea sits on a table next to a green tea leaves.

The ingredients for a tastier, stronger tea could be in the soil

By Laura Baisas

Two lionesses. One tilts her head towards the left, while the other sticks out her tongue.

Captive big cats can tell voices apart

By Laura Baisas

The skeletal remains of a frog and a human were uncovered at Seminario Vescovile in Verona, Italy.

Iron Age humans found mysteriously buried with dogs and horses

By Laura Baisas

A Skywalker gibbon in a green and leafy forest. Distinguishing characteristics of Skywalker hoolock gibbons compared to other gibbons include thinner eyebrows, a black or brown beard instead of a white one, and incomplete white face rings on the females, like this adult.

Scientists tracked the love songs of Skywalker gibbons to find them

By Laura Baisas

A smiling bonobo in a body of water.

Primates have been teasing each other for 13 million years

By Laura Baisas

A 3D model of a section of the Blinkerwall next to a large boulder at the western end of the wall.

Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure may be at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

By Laura Baisas

The wheel of the Arlington, about 600 feet underwater.

Shipwreck hunters find WWII-era ship in Lake Superior

By Laura Baisas

A woman puts a yellow earplug into her ear.

Scientists made a ‘zinc trap’ to prevent noise-induced hearing loss (in mice)

By Laura Baisas

The first published photographs of bacteria.

Charles Darwin’s eclectic personal library is now online

By Laura Baisas

A mother and calf humpback whale swim underwater.

Close to half of migratory species are in serious decline: UN report

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of an ancient shark called Glikmanius careforum swimming. It was about 10 to 12 feet long and had a powerful bite.

Three new ancient shark species discovered in Alabama and Kentucky

By Laura Baisas

Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, seen in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. A consequence of this is that newborn clusters of stars form along a stretched-out tidal tail for thousands of light-years, resembling a string of pearls. They form when knots of gas gravitationally collapse to create about one million newborn stars per cluster.

Space Telescope

NASA’s Hubble space telescope reveals a galactic ‘string of pearls’

By Laura Baisas

A bunch of wet blueberries.

Why blueberries aren’t technically blue

By Laura Baisas

Molten lava overflows the road leading to the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, a popular tourist destination in western Iceland. Orange lava covers a dark road, as gray smoke rises.

Volcano in Iceland erupts for the third time in two months

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Fire and smoke are below the spacecraft as it lifts off from the launch pad.

NASA’s PACE satellite takes off to monitor phytoplankton—from space

By Laura Baisas

Eight gray seals and four wild horses stand on a sandy beach.

See wild horses and gray seals mingle on Sable Island

By Laura Baisas

The Ingenuity helicopter sits on the surface of Mars on February 4, 2024.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover spots damaged, lonely Ingenuity helicopter in the ‘bland’ part of Mars

By Laura Baisas

The St. George’s Cross medusa is about four inches wide, three inches long, and has about 240 tentacles. It has a red cross on its body when viewed from above.

New jellyfish discovered near Japan may contain multitudes of venom

By Laura Baisas

A satellite image of two cyclones over the ocean with land nearby.

Stronger hurricanes may call for a ‘Category 6’

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s illustration of the new pterosaur species Ceoptera evansae. Several of the winged reptiles fly over trees and grass in Jurassic-era Scotland.

New pterosaur species discovered in Scotland

By Laura Baisas

An ermine moth with white wings and black spots sits on a yellow dandelion.

Moths fight against echolocating bats with sounds of their own

By Laura Baisas

Two different versions of the eROSITA map. Extended X-ray emissions (left) and point-like X-ray sources (right).

Space Telescope

New map of half the known universe shines with cosmic energy

By Laura Baisas

Three common clownfish with orange coloring and white stripes swimming in a sea anemone.

Can clownfish count?

By Laura Baisas

The constellation Orion, the Hunter as seen in the northern winter Milky Way in February 2020. The Orion Nebula is the bright, overexposed pink glow below the Belt of Orion, while the curving arc of red is Barnard’s Loop, now thought to be a supernova remnant. The bright red glow at upper left is the Rosette Nebula. Red Betelgeuse was at its minimum the night this image was taken, at about the same brightness as Bellatrix to the right—Betelgeuse is usually about as bright as blue-white Rigel at the lower right.

February’s skies shine with Orion, a harmless comet, and an extra day of stargazing

By Laura Baisas

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