More from Laura Baisas

a green parrot with an open beak and orange and black eye
Animals

These parrots have accents

By Laura Baisas

several sharp clovis points of varying size
Archaeology

Ice Age humans may have used pikes to hunt mammoths

By Laura Baisas

several white circles surround a humpback whale with an open mouth
Animals

Humpback whales use bubble-nets as ‘tools’

By Laura Baisas

seven circular pieces of silver dating back to the viking age
Archaeology

Metal detector enthusiast finds Viking silver in a field

By Laura Baisas

A freshly-collected batch of venomous cone snails.
Animals

Precise, lethal sea snail toxin could one day lead to better medicines

By Laura Baisas

a python with a wide open mouth swallows a white rat whole
Animals

How pythons can eat such giant meals

By Laura Baisas

a spider traps a glowing firefly in its web
Animals

Spiders may be hacking firefly signals to trap dinner

By Laura Baisas

a bunch of yellow bananas
Agriculture

Bananas are at risk of extinction, but scientists have a plan

By Laura Baisas

a group of earthworms in rich, dark soil
Animals

Hear the ‘rave’-like sounds of a healthy soil

By Laura Baisas

a large, domed rock formation
Archaeology

Geologists find solid evidence of ancient ‘snowball Earth’

By Laura Baisas

Port Jackson sharks sleeping on the seafloor at Beagle Marine Park.
Animals

Watch a huge ‘No Boys Allowed’ shark slumber party

By Laura Baisas

A transparent zebrafish in a tank in a laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris on June 20, 2023.
Animals

Zebrafish regenerate their spinal cords in a surprising way

By Laura Baisas

An old ink drawing of Sweden’s Forsa Ring with the runic inscription.
Archaeology

Even Vikings had to pay fines

By Laura Baisas

stonehenge. these large neolithic standing stones are arranged in a circle
Archaeology

Geologists crack a major Stonehenge mystery

By Laura Baisas

a spotted cat walks through a mountain region at night
Animals

Rare, endangered ocelot caught on camera

By Laura Baisas

Ontocetus posti has post-canine teeth, a larger lower canine, and a fused and short mandibular symphysis.
Animals

New species of extinct walrus discovered

By Laura Baisas

The central region of a spiral galaxy. Its core is a small bright point radiating bright, bluish-white light over the scene. The white light is diffuse and many point-like stars in the galaxy (and even background galaxies) can be seen through it. The galaxy’s arms can be seen as broad, swirling streaks of glowing gas and dust, coloured red and orange. Two additional arms are revealed in green
Deep Space

You’ve never seen a prettier radiation-spewing supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a burmese python.
Animals

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge begins

By Laura Baisas

a long grey sediment core taken from the earth's mantle
Environment

Longest rocks ever recovered from Earth’s mantle

By Laura Baisas

a lemur in an enclosure stares into a takeout container
Animals

Lemurs use smell, social cues, and superior memories to find treats

By Laura Baisas

four different types of corn. one is long and yellow, the other is shorter and yellow. the other two are shorter and black
Agriculture

Love corn? Thank interbreeding

By Laura Baisas

The newly discovered Paragonaster hoeimaruae. There are many types of starfish and this one is particularly adapted to living in sandy, muddy waters, a feature the researchers want to learn more about.
Animals

New, vibrant starfish discovered in Japan

By Laura Baisas

two sea lions swim in blue water, with their heads above the water
Animals

Sea lion camera crews help scientists map unexplored seabeds

By Laura Baisas

human bones belonging to an small, extinct, early human secies
Archaeology

New ‘Hobbit’ fossils discovered on Indonesia’s Flores island

By Laura Baisas

two ancient gold coins with the image of an archer carved into them
Archaeology

Archeologists uncover hoard of gold coins linked to ancient mercenaries

By Laura Baisas

a sculpture of a man hunched over leaning on a balled fist called 'the thinker'
Health

Study confirms that thinking hard is unpleasant

By Laura Baisas

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a compound that is effective against common bacteria that can lead to rare, dangerous illnesses. This image shows untreated Streptococcus pyogenes bacterial culture full of healthy microbes, labeled green (left). After treatment by GmPcide, the dish is full of dead bacteria (red; right).
Diseases

A breakthrough in fighting bacteria that causes ‘flesh-eating’ illness

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small penguin with light black, yellow, and white feathers on a new zealand beach
Animals

Tiny fossil reveals when penguins evolved their surprisingly useful wings

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s reconstruction of Shishania aculeata as it would have appeared in life as viewed from the top, side and bottom (left to right). This early mollusk lived about 514 million years ago.
Animals

A ‘rotting little plastic bag’ was actually a 514 million-year-old fossil

By Laura Baisas

a fruit fly intestine. it is a long and narrow coiled tube with green coloration from dye
Animals

Swapping genes can help fruit flies regenerate cells

By Laura Baisas

a lobster with blue, pink, and purple coloring on a white tray
Animals

One in 100 million cotton candy lobster caught in New Hampshire

By Laura Baisas

a meteor shower over tall evergreen trees
Science

August skygazing: First supermoon of 2024 and the Perseids meteor shower

By Laura Baisas

an orange, black, and white monarch butterfly on a pink milkweed flower
Animals

How everyone can help monarch butterflies

By Laura Baisas

a pair of brown frogs mating, with the male on the female's back
Animals

The upside-down sex lives of Charles Darwin’s frogs

By Laura Baisas

a firefly with its bottom half illuminated
Animals

A new theory on why fireflies glow—and why they need help

By Laura Baisas

a scientists with a gloved hand prepares a blood sample in a test tube
Cancer

FDA approves new blood test to detect colon cancer

By Laura Baisas

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

Abandoned Pacific walrus calf rescued in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

dead bird specimens with blue and green plumage in museum storage
Animals

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.
Science

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

By Laura Baisas

a purple race track, with whit lane lines
Engineering

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
Animals

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
Agriculture

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
Animals

Baby teeth reveal surprisingly long lifespans of small Jurassic mammals

By Laura Baisas

various bird bones out on a table
Archaeology

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
Animals

Butterflies and moths suck up pollen with static electricity

By Laura Baisas

five chimpanzeess sitting in tall, green grass
Animals

Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos

By Laura Baisas

a brown dog looks up with a longing expression
Animals

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
Deep Space

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps shrinking

By Laura Baisas

a bee kicks away an ant
Animals

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas

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

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

By Laura Baisas

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii
Archaeology

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
Animals

Early humans butchered enormous armadillos

By Laura Baisas

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

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

By Laura Baisas

several snakes entwined together on a rock
Animals

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

By Laura Baisas

beluga whales
Animals

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.
Animals

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
Animals

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

By Laura Baisas

a male lion sits in a tree
Animals

Lion brothers take risky swim across crocodile-infested channel

By Laura Baisas

several stone circles marking gravesites in a field in norway
Archaeology

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
Agriculture

Iron Age plant remains tell new agricultural story in east Africa

By Laura Baisas

circles of red, blue, and green bacteria
Biology

‘Bacterial glitter’ shimmers without pigments

By Laura Baisas

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

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
Deep Space

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
Animals

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

By Laura Baisas