More from Laura Baisas (Page 7)

an archeologist wearing a hard hat digs in a hole alongside skeletal remains

British Iron Age burial grounds reveal women had power

By Laura Baisas

The 3D map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor in the Paris Basin in northern France.

Oldest-known 3D map also celebrated the female form

By Laura Baisas

a line of gold coins, which feature emperors, on a black background.

Rare Roman gold coins discovered in Luxembourg

By Laura Baisas

a close up of an isopod with antenne and a segmented body

New foot-long crustacean named after Darth Vader

By Laura Baisas

several dark dots on mummified skin. the skin appears to be white since it is under a strong white light

Intricate tattoos on 1,200-year-old mummy revealed by lasers

By Laura Baisas

a blue lobster-looking animal called a crayfish. it has long claws, antennae, and a segmented body

New colorful species of crayfish discovered in aquarium shipment

By Laura Baisas

a small bird sits in a tree with its beak open wide

Why do birds make so many different sounds? 100,000 audio recordings offer clues.

By Laura Baisas

a skull next to a yellow note that reads: "Skull from Ephesus.”

Sorry, this skull does not belong to Cleopatra’s sister

By Laura Baisas

Planet Mercury in the background with its grey, cratered, pockmarked surface. In the foreground are some spacecraft parts

Mercury stuns in incredibly detailed new images

By Laura Baisas

a yellow cardinal sits on a tree branch

Extremely rare yellow cardinal flies into a Michigan backyard

By Laura Baisas

a scientist weather a larger winder coat and hat examines a cylindrical piece of ice

1.2-million-year-old ice pulled up from under Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

a green glow of bioluminescence from a mushroom

Artists find a green, glowing mushroom in a Swiss forest

By Laura Baisas

a small brown fish swimming in a tank

These fish can mate 19 times per day

By Laura Baisas

a tomb in a desert

Archaeologists find the 4,000-year-old tomb of an overachieving Egyptian magician

By Laura Baisas

a long whale shark with gray spots swims in the ocean

Whale shark pre-mating ritual observed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

a bird with white and black plummage and an egg on a nest and three other birds standing around her

Which animals reproduce at the oldest age?

By Laura Baisas

a baby pygmy hippo in an indoor tank with its mother nearby

Endangered Species

Newest pygmy hippo born on US soil gets a name

By Laura Baisas

a woman nuzzles a dog

Meet the former musher investigating sled dog genetics

By Laura Baisas

a brown dog ups up onto a tree and sniffs it, while its human handler points to what it is sniffing

Sniffing dogs join the fight against invasive spotted lanternflies

By Laura Baisas

a dark brown moray eel

New ‘Hades’ moray eel discovered by accident

By Laura Baisas

meteors fall in the night sky near a lighthouse

January stargazing: Ring in 2025 with a meteor shower, ‘planet parade,’ and best chance to spot Mars

By Laura Baisas

a mummy with a necklace of cheese

10 fascinating archeological discoveries of 2024

By Laura Baisas

a baby pygmy hippo stands on straw at a zoo

11 weird, groundbreaking, and cute animal stories from 2024

By Laura Baisas

a black and white photograph of NASA mission control. several men are sitting at various screens and work stations

On Christmas Eve 1968, millions watched the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast from space

By Laura Baisas

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera.

Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers

By Laura Baisas

a svalbard reindeer with antlers standing on muddy terrain

Shorter, fatter, and hairier: 5 fun facts about the world’s smallest reindeer

By Laura Baisas

a strange fish with a blob on its head sits on a rock

27 new, exciting, and blobby species discovered in the Peruvian rainforest

By Laura Baisas

An artistic representation of an active centaur like Chiron. The different colors in the coma indicate varying compositions of gas, ice, and dust.

An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years

By Laura Baisas

$The first image depicts star cluster NGC 602 in vibrant and festive colors. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.$

Happy holidays from space!

By Laura Baisas

A Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) photographed on Sombrero Island in June 2021. This species is endemic to the Carribbean island.

Population of nearly extinct lizard grows 16X in only six years

By Laura Baisas

An Andean bear at the nature reserve Bioparque Wakata, in Briceno municipality near Bogota, Colombia, on June 21, 2023.

Shy ‘Paddington’ bears need more plants to survive

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a black hole

Enormous black hole napping after eating a ton of gas

By Laura Baisas

a squirrel sits eating a vole, pulling its meat with its teeth

‘Shocking:’ These squirrels are hunting and eating other rodents

By Laura Baisas

a turtle swims in a tank wearing a black weighted harness on its side

Sea turtle with ‘bubble butt syndrome’ gets a 3D-printed custom harness

By Laura Baisas

A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsian in life.

This dog-like predator is the oldest known mammal ancestor

By Laura Baisas

a small blue-colored penguin called a little penguin swims in the ocean

Turtles and penguins have a swimming sweet spot that reduces drag

By Laura Baisas

four human bones that show evidence of being chewed on by other humans

Bronze Age butchery and cannibalism unearthed in England

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the eyes of an older dog. it has black fur with touches of grey

Is my dog ‘old’? Vets finally have the answers

By Laura Baisas

red brain neurons

Why is deep sleep so important to memory? It’s about time.

By Laura Baisas

waves in a deep cavern

Earthquake off northern California shook the water in Devils Hole, 500 miles away

By Laura Baisas

The 5,600-year-old teeth and other bones from this study were found near Kosenivka, Ukraine and are some of the only human remains found that are associated with the Cucuteni-Trypilla culture.

Fire likely killed a group of Stone Age humans uncovered in Ukraine

By Laura Baisas

A juvenile Nile crocodile. It is small with pointed teeth

Why are crocodiles so bumpy? A dermatological mystery has been solved

By Laura Baisas

a new shrimp-like crustacean. it is white with two protruding tusk-like appendages at its head, at least 8 legs, and two tail-like appendages at the back

New predator uncovered 25,000+ feet under the Pacific

By Laura Baisas

a microscopic zooplankton

Microscopic ‘eating and pooping machines’ are great at sucking up carbon

By Laura Baisas

a woman leading a dance rehearsal in the a studio

How the Rockettes use math to make holiday magic

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of an Early Cretaceous floodplain in southeastern England, 135 million years ago: a spinosaur (center) takes over the carcass of an ornithopod, much to the annoyance of the smaller tyrannosaurs (left) and dromaeosaurids (bottom right).

Retired quarryman uncovers fossilized tyrannosaur teeth

By Laura Baisas

two twisted bowstrings uncovered from a cave

Europe’s oldest known bowstrings found in a cave in Spain

By Laura Baisas

Two views of a slingshot spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum) web. The right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip.

Watch a slingshot spider deploy a perfectly-timed trap

By Laura Baisas

a siberian husky sits in the snow. it has piercing blue eyes and its ears are perked up

Humans gave dogs treats 12,000 years ago, new archeological evidence suggests

By Laura Baisas

The anglerfish species Lophius piscatorius.

Anglerfish are so much more than just their dangly bioluminescent lures

By Laura Baisas

brain scans in pink, blue, and yellow

Humans may have big brains thanks to our gut

By Laura Baisas

cattle grazing in a field

Feeding seaweed to gassy cattle can reduce methane

By Laura Baisas

a constellation of seven stars grouped in a circle

December’s skies illuminate with the Seven Sisters and Cold Moon

By Laura Baisas

an orca whale dorsal fin coming out of the water

Orcas observed preying on massive whale sharks

By Laura Baisas

a photo from the movie "moana 2." a whale shark swims by a group of voyagers on the ocean

‘We know the way’: How Polynesian voyagers navigate Earth’s biggest ocean

By Laura Baisas

Micro-CT scans of bone needle and needle specimens and the species they were compared with.

Ice age humans made needles from animal bones, archeologists discover

By Laura Baisas

a long piece of fossilized dinosaur poop on the ground

200-million-year-old dinosaur poop and vomit reveal a lost Jurassic world

By Laura Baisas

An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, which appears blue, another oval feature can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole. The oval, an area of concentrated haze, is possibly the result of mixing generated by a vortex higher up in the planet's ionosphere. These dark UV ovals also appear periodically at the north pole, though less often.

Great Red What? Check out Jupiter’s giant, magnetic tornado

By Laura Baisas

a more colorful dominant male fish next to a more muted subordinate fish

Stress is warping these fish brains

By Laura Baisas

A still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 32 feet away from the mother plant.

High-speed camera catches cucumber squirting seeds at 65 feet-per-second

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the amygdala, shown in red. It is a part of the brain’s limbic system and plays a key role in processing emotions.

‘Was I awkward?’ What overthinking after a party has to do with your ‘lizard brain’

By Laura Baisas

a black meteorite on display at a musuem

4-billion-year-old mineral offers clues about Mars’ steaming hot past

By Laura Baisas

a scan of a zebrafish with its eye highlighted in green and other parts of its anatomy stained red and blue

Mapping the shifting gaze of ‘fishlets’

By Laura Baisas

the skeleton of a Parasaurolophus dinosaur. it has a wave like crest at the top of its skull

A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like

By Laura Baisas

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