More from Laura Baisas (Page 2)

A photo of a tornado forming above a rural road and there's a headlight.
Ask Us Anything

The real storm chasers of the Great Plains

By Laura Baisas

shiny crystals found inside of a bone
Evolution

An extinct human species made surprisingly creative butchery tools

By Laura Baisas

five sled dog puppies
Dogs

Denali’s adorable Sled Dog Puppy Cam is back for 2026

By Laura Baisas

a landslide over a fjord
Climate Change

A 1,578-foot tsunami struck a popular Alaskan cruise destination. Now we know why.

By Laura Baisas

rainbow clouds
Weather

No, these rainbow clouds over Indonesia are not AI

By Laura Baisas

a valley and cave
Archaeology

Prehistoric child’s finger bone, bear tooth pendant, and more discovered in Spanish cave

By Laura Baisas

two eaglet chicks in a nest
Birds

How to tell Jackie and Shadow’s chicks, Sandy and Luna, apart

By Laura Baisas

two eaglets on a nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets’ names announced: Say hello to Sandy and Luna

By Laura Baisas

a brown bear eating a piece of salmon in a river
Land

Fat Bear Week champion Chunk spotted taking a stroll in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

a chicken with brown and white stripes and large orange sacks on the sides of its head
Land

A rare prairie chicken shakes his butt all day to attract ladies

By Laura Baisas

a yellow glider in the ocean
Whales

The ‘Waymo of the sea’ tracks sperm whale conversations

By Laura Baisas

sea lion on pier
Wildlife

How to watch Chonkers, the 2,000-pound sea lion live from San Francisco

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a woolly mammoth with brown fur and two large tusks and a trunk walking around a snow landscape
Endangered Species

We’re still recovering from losing the woolly mammoth

By Laura Baisas

an eagle feeding two chicks
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s chicks getting new feathers

By Laura Baisas

a man's face in a bubble
NASA

Watch the Artemis II astronauts have fun with bubbles

By Laura Baisas

a penguin with black and white feathers and long yellow feathers on top of its eyes
Birds

Macaroni penguins are surprisingly buff

By Laura Baisas

a green bee pollinating a yellow flower
Bees

Humidity makes these bees go from blue to green

By Laura Baisas

a lobster with orange color on one side and black on the other
Wildlife

1 in 50 million split-colored lobster found in Massachusetts

By Laura Baisas

a woman plays rug of war with a black and white dog
Dogs

Play with your dog. It’s good for both of you.

By Laura Baisas

two bald eagles
Birds

How to tell eagle parents Jackie and Shadow apart

By Laura Baisas

a parrot with green feathers and a missing top beak
Birds

Bruce is missing his upper beak, but it has not stopped him from dominance

By Laura Baisas

the earth is setting behind the moon
Moons

New Artemis II astronaut iPhone video reveals new Earthset view

By Laura Baisas

a black bear cub up in a tree and looking directly at the camera
Bears

Litter of 5 bear cubs spotted in Connecticut for the first time

By Laura Baisas

two eagle chicks in a nest
Birds

Help name Jackie and Shadow’s new eaglets

By Laura Baisas

a satirical currency showing president andrew jackson as a cat
Archaeology

Fake banknotes mocked a US president. And are now worth thousands.

By Laura Baisas

a naked mole rat. it is a small, pinkish colored and hairless rodent with large front teeth
Wildlife

Not all naked mole-rat queens go out in a blaze of bloody violence

By Laura Baisas

shark holding maryland flags
Sharks

Megalodon set to become Maryland’s state shark

By Laura Baisas

a small spider attacking a cockroach
Spiders

New spider named for Pink Floyd devours bugs 6x its size

By Laura Baisas

a recovery crew opening up a space capsule int he ocean
Moons

Watch a recovery crew open Integrity’s hatch for Artemis II astronauts

By Laura Baisas

an eagle feeing two eaglets in a nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s 2026 babies: Everything you need to know about the new eaglets

By Laura Baisas

A common snapping turtle crosses the road after laying eggs.
Endangered Species

How to help a turtle cross the road

By Laura Baisas

frog eggs floating on a pond. they are clear blobs with a black dot inside
Birds

Nature’s strangest eggs—from spongy clusters to gelatinous blobs

By Laura Baisas

an orange rocket lifting off against a blue sky. puffy white smoke is at its base
NASA

Space now has 10 toilets

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a prehistoric spider relative
Evolution

500-million-year-old spider relative has claws where it shouldn’t

By Laura Baisas

a smiling man in a yellow hooded sweatshirt wears a virtual reality headset over his eyes
Engineering

Skull vibrations could be your next password

By Laura Baisas

24 new species of deep sea organisms. they are small and resemble shrimp
Ocean

New crustacean named after its unique butt

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a tortoise covered in dirt
Wildlife

Volunteers finally find Betty White—the rescue tortoise

By Laura Baisas

A regular size Cadbury Mini Egg compared with The Mega Mini Egg. The giant chocolate egg clocks in at 121 pounds.
Science

World’s largest Cadbury Mini egg weighs as much as an emu

By Laura Baisas

two owls sit on a metal table with their wings up
Birds

Spunky baby owls examined after being found on soccer field

By Laura Baisas

a bird with long legs and green feathers standing on a rock
Birds

Student discovers new Galápagos bird, solving a decades-old mystery

By Laura Baisas

a sperm whale calf swims under its mother
Ocean

Baby sperm whale birth captured in groundbreaking video

By Laura Baisas

One of the dogs sampled in the paper from the Skateholm site in Sweden, buried alongside a human.
Evolution

Europe’s first domesticated dogs arrived over 3,000 years earlier than we thought

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a calendar with the world "cancelled" stamped on it. a pair of glasses, a cup of coffee, and a pen are next to the calendar
Psychology

Psychologists confirm that a canceled meeting is good for you

By Laura Baisas

a stylized photo of a woman sleeping
Psychology

Vivid dreams trick your brain into thinking you slept well

By Laura Baisas

a herd of bison running by a car
Wildlife

What to do if you encounter a bison

By Laura Baisas

Red tulips blooming in the tulip fields in the northern Netherlands. Tulips rely on increasing temperatures to know when to bloom.
Weather

How plants know when to bloom

By Laura Baisas

A sperm whale and a photographer in the Atlantic Ocean near Portugal.
Whales

First-of-its-kind video confirms sperm whales really do headbutt

By Laura Baisas

two mating frogs with the male grasping on to the female
Wildlife

Even humans love a good mating call

By Laura Baisas

a coyote pup with brown fur tilts its head
Wildlife

Coyote pupping season is here. You can help keep them safe.

By Laura Baisas

The bark of birch trees has been used to produce tar for more than 150,000 years. The center photo shows birch bark tar condensed onto a rock that borders a hearth. When scraped off the rocks, the viscous tar can be used as both an adhesive and antibiotic.
Medicine

Neanderthals used antibiotics, new experiment suggests

By Laura Baisas

a satellite image of ireland's west coast showing gray rocks surrounded by green
NASA

Ireland’s 250-million-year-old gray spot

By Laura Baisas

Adult bull shark ‘Chunky’ (foreground) parallel swimming with subadult female ‘Lady Lazarus’ (background).
Ocean

Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males

By Laura Baisas

An adult male blue crab attempts to cannibalize a smaller blue crab on a tether.
Wildlife

Blue crabs have a serious cannibalism problem

By Laura Baisas

an illustration showing bronze age women weaaving
Archaeology

3,500-year-old loom tells a revolutionary tale

By Laura Baisas

the front of a steam locomotive. it is black and reads "union pacific 4014"
Engineering

World’s largest steam locomotive heads out on tour

By Laura Baisas

In the light of the setting sun, the sky forms a veil of Saharan dust over the Wurmberg in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Sahara dust colors the sky red.
Weather

NASA shows how Sahara desert dust spread all over Europe

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s illustration of a giant tyrannosaur watching the duckbill dinosaur ‘Parasaurolophus’ in New Mexico during the late Cretaceous (74-75 million years ago).
Dinosaurs

‘Unusually large’ tyrannosaur leg bone points to 10,000-pound behemoth

By Laura Baisas

a screenshot of a website showing a human brain, heart, colon, lung, kidney, prostate, placenta, and liver
Medicine

Explore the human body in stunning, 3D detail with a new online tool

By Laura Baisas

a grizzly bear stands on a bison carcass
Bears

Yellowstone’s first grizzly bear of 2026 emerges from his den

By Laura Baisas

two parrots with red, green, and blue feathers sitting in a tree
Archaeology

Ancient Andean parrot trade route stretched over 300 miles

By Laura Baisas

An Ixodes tick (left). An Asian tiger mosquito. (right)
Insects

What a cold winter means for ticks and mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

yellow flowers blooming near hills
Land

Best superbloom since 2016 fills Death Valley with wildflowers

By Laura Baisas

trees and shrubs are surrounded by a bright yellow weed
Agriculture

Weed that smells like paint thinner takes over Arizona

By Laura Baisas

purple crystals
Wildlife

Humans’ love of crystals goes back at least 6 million years

By Laura Baisas