Welcome to the Largest Mirror on Earth
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, one of the first things they saw when looking earthward…
Petrified Wood is One of the Most Beautiful Things You Can Find in Nature
What is petrified wood? Well, it’s basically a fossil. Petrifaction is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having transitioned to stone by a mineralization process….
Glass Beach: When Nature Corrects Humans’ Mistakes
Back in the Soviet Union, the idea of nature conservation was simply unheard of. So the comrades decided to use Ussuri Bay near Vladivostok to simply dump…
We should be extremely concerned since the Earth’s rotation is accelerating
We define a day as 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours – the time it takes for Earth to rotate once. However, the Earth doesn’t rotate perfectly uniformly….
The Glass: A Night in a Glass Igloo With Northern Lights Above It
Deep inside the snow-covered woodlands of Finland, you can find the Arctic Fox Igloos located at one of the shores of Lake Ranuanjärvi. If you stay in…
We now understand why this kind of bunny walks on its front legs.
No, it’s not a circus trick. This is how Sauteur d’Alfort rabbits actually get around. Image credit: Carneiro et al, PLoS Genetics A rabbit doing a handstand…
Discover the largest land crab in the world, which may have eaten Amelia Earhart alive.
The coconut crab – the world’s largest land crab – can weigh over 4 kg (8.8 lbs) and span nearly a meter (3 feet) across. This guy…
View the First-Ever Footage of an Anglerfish Similar to the One That Just Went Ashore in California
It sparked an Internet viral frenzy when a dead specimen of the sea creature that typically lives in depths of 3,000 feet recently washed ashore in California….
This nearly 400-year-old bonsai tree even survived the Hiroshima bombing.
It was planted in 1625 and is still growing. Image source: USDA-U.S. National Arboretum The ancient Miyajima White Pine tree sits humbly in the National Bonsai &…
Scientists Have Created a Chicken With Dinosaur Features in Jurassic Park Version 1.0
In a groundbreaking experiment, scientists have transformed chicken embryos to give them a snout and palate configuration similar to that of small dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx….