More from Laura Baisas (Page 7)

Two young gorillas, habituated to human presence, scratch the soil in search of truffles

A group of gorillas have a surprising knack for hunting truffles, researchers find

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of what the aurora might have looked like during a polar reversal about 41,000 years ago. The green glow of an aurora is much further south than we see it today.

Sunscreen may have kept ancient humans alive during a polar reversal

By Laura Baisas

a large gold nugget

Huge gold nugget found by metal detector enthusiasts set for auction

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small crocodile ancestor sneaking up on a small mammal ancestor

Crocodile ancestors survived two mass extinctions—here’s how

By Laura Baisas

two hot dogs topped with yellow mustard and sauerkraut

Put more sauerkraut on your hot dog (your gut might like it)

By Laura Baisas

A burned section of a large ice age fireplace.

Ice age humans built sophisticated fireplaces

By Laura Baisas

brown egg on blue background

How to make an egg bounce

By Laura Baisas

A man suffering from hay fever next to a flowering shrub.

Ask Us Anything

Why are some cities worse for allergies than others?

By Laura Baisas

a side view of an injured eagle beak that is regrowing some keratin

Images show bald eagle’s beak healing from gunshot wound

By Laura Baisas

several stone tools uncovered in a cave

Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools

By Laura Baisas

a pug named Doug stands on a red carpet with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth

People tend to trust ‘pet-fluencers’ over human influencers

By Laura Baisas

Archeologists find ancient child remains inside Maya altar

By Laura Baisas

This Hubble image shows Uranus and dynamic aurora activity on 10 October 2022. The centered planet is dominated by a blue hue and a large white region in the lower left. A faint ring is also visible around the planet. Fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet on the left and ride indicate the presence of aurorae

Space Telescope

Uranus has a longer day than astronomers thought

By Laura Baisas

An artistic rendering of the newly discovered binary star system in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode

Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion

By Laura Baisas

three men work on planting a tree

A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of several mouths talking

How to talk for a very, very long time

By Laura Baisas

An illustration showing how the brain and gut are connected.

The brain remembers what gave you food poisoning

By Laura Baisas

an adult eagle tends to two chicks on a nest

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets officially named: Meet Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas

several lightning strikes in the distance. a man crouches down in a squatting position with his hands over his ears. a red circle with a line through it is over the image, indicating that this is not what to do during lightning

Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm

By Laura Baisas

The Greater mouse-tailed bat flies through the night sky, searching for insects

How bats avoid crashing into one another

By Laura Baisas

This photo taken on July 10, 2024 shows part of an Apatosaurus' dinosaur skeleton at the Dampierre-en-Yvelines castle in France prior to an auction.

Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained

By Laura Baisas

an baby orca surfaces behind its mother

Baby orca is a descendent of a whale almost sold to SeaWorld in 1976

By Laura Baisas

three elephants crossing a river

Endangered Species

Elephants avoid wasting energy during their epic journeys

By Laura Baisas

a hummingbird with blue, green, purple, and white feathers sucks nectar out of a yellow flower

Baby hummingbird appears to mimic caterpillar to avoid death

By Laura Baisas

Looking south from near a pullout along the Mammoth to Norris road just north of the Nymph Lake overlook. On the other side of the marsh is a tree-covered rhyolite lava flow, and at the base of the flow is a new thermal feature marked by a plume of steam that formed in early August 2024.

Keep an eye on Yellowstone’s steamy new hydrothermal vent

By Laura Baisas

An 1803 portrait of Schinderhannes (left). Recent Genetic analyses have now also made it possible to determine the color of his skin, eyes, and hair, as well as positively identifying his skeleton (right).

Famed German robber’s skeleton identified after 220-year-long mix-up

By Laura Baisas

a small bird with yellow plumage stands on a branch with its mouth wide open

Traffic noise is making these Galápagos birds more aggressive

By Laura Baisas

a green iguana sitting at the base of a palm tree

Endangered Species

After a 5,000-mile float, these iguanas probably set an ocean record

By Laura Baisas

a man with long dark hair and beard is wearing a white and green robe and holding a shepherd's crook. he is a actor portraying saint patrick

Where are St. Patrick’s remains? It’s a hot debate.

By Laura Baisas

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants, and tetrapods recovered, as well as sedimentological data from the South Taodonggou Section

The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of the planet saturn as seen from one of its many moons two other smaller moons are in the distance

Which planet has the most moons? Saturn dethrones Jupiter.

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small weasel-like early mammal with brown, black, and white fur climbing on a tree

This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives

By Laura Baisas

a man on a boat holds a large orange pet goldfish

Please stop releasing pet goldfish into the wild

By Laura Baisas

three small and gray balg eaglets eat fish given to them by an adult bald eagle

Bald eagle live cam team shares what’s next for the 3 eaglets

By Laura Baisas

Flagstones enclosure seen shortly after construction in the middle Neolithic period.

This ‘unusual’ stone circle may predate Stonehenge

By Laura Baisas

A mother humpback whale and her calf swimming in warm waters.

Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles

By Laura Baisas

bald eagle feeds babies fresh fish

Jackie and Shadow’s third eaglet has landed

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the titanosaur Chadititan calvoi and the other Cretaceous Period organisms it lived with.

New 22-foot-long titanosaur discovered in Argentina

By Laura Baisas

a green frog with its eyes and mouth sticking out of a shallow pool of water

Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.

By Laura Baisas

two baby eagles tended to by their parent

The famous bald eagle nest live cam is back and we have 3 baby eaglets

By Laura Baisas

a large hornet dismembers a honey bee

1,400 different bug species found in the guts of Asian hornets

By Laura Baisas

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black

Space Telescope

Candy-colored atoms shine in new image of the Veil Nebula

By Laura Baisas

three eggs in a nest. the egg on the right has a pip, which is the first crack in a shell. the pip is circled in red

Pips spotted! Live cam bald eagles’ eggs shows hopeful signs of hatching

By Laura Baisas

three narwhals with long tusks swim in the arctic ocean

Narwhals spotted using tusks for non-mating fun

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear mom and cub on sea ice, off the coast of Svalbard, Norway.

See the first moments when 3 polar bear cubs emerge from their den

By Laura Baisas

a humpback whale lunches out of the water with its mouth open

Krill or anchovy? Baleen whale songs may indicate what’s on the menu

By Laura Baisas

a skill with an iron nail driven through it

New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain

By Laura Baisas

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen against the characteristic red tones of the dusty martian surface.

Why is Mars red? Our old understanding might be wrong.

By Laura Baisas

a newly discovered species of plant. it has fuzzy white wool on its green leaves, a yellow center, and two small red flowers

New species of fuzzy sunflower found by national park volunteer

By Laura Baisas

Portrait of happy young adult woman standing on the beach

What is ‘feels-like’ temperature? A meteorologist explains.

By Laura Baisas

a large bird with a long neck and black plumage called an emu walking around in nature

Emus might not be the ‘world’s dumbest bird’ after all

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the landscape of Cretaceous Australia. The mega raptor is standing on the right river bank and Carcharodontosaurus is on the left.

A 20-foot-long ‘mega raptor’ once stalked Australia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two orchids and their root systems. one is growing near decomposing wood and fungi and has more flowers. the other is still growing, but does not have as many flowers

Parasitic orchids ditch photosynthesis for fungi

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a diver wearing a mask and a fish swimming towards him

Wild fish can recognize human divers

By Laura Baisas

a large orange circle surrounded by a blue square

Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct big cat about the size of a leopard. it is brown with sharp teeth

Skull of a 30-million-year-old apex predator discovered in Egypt

By Laura Baisas

a cuttlefish swimming in the ocean

Cuttlefish ink can help keep sharks away from humans

By Laura Baisas

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD.

Could we really make Captain America’s shield? A materials scientist weighs in.

By Laura Baisas

a seal with grey coloring wearing an orange heart rate monitor around its abdomen

Baby seals are wearing heart monitors–for science

By Laura Baisas

one jaw fossil and six vertebrae fossils lined up

500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole

By Laura Baisas

a turtle peeks its head out of the water

These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack

By Laura Baisas

a hand written text from the 16th century CE

500-year-old Transylvanian diaries detail the peril of the Little Ice Age

By Laura Baisas

A blow fly larva disguised as a termite, antennae and all.

Rare fly species wears fake termite head to infiltrate nests

By Laura Baisas

The Earth's internal layers including the mantle, outer core, and inner core.

Earth’s inner core is less solid than we thought

By Laura Baisas

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