A 7-month-old female giraffe at an Indiana zoo briefly escaped her enclosure on Monday. Officials at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo said the giraffe, Thabisa, escaped from the African Journey exhibit. The mischievous youngster never left the property, however. Zoo staffers were able to trap the giraffe in a fenced parking lot in a non-public […] More
A powerful waterspout was captured on video in the Florida Panhandle Sunday. The swirling phenomena was seen tearing through Okaloosa Island, passing over a sound then making landfall in Fort Walton Beach, according to WEAR-TV. Dave Perkins and his wife witnessed the destruction. “Water started coming up out of the Gulf, tore up one of […] More
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in April 2018, is expected to discover thousands of new alien worlds. (Orbital ATK) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest planet-hunting powerhouse, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), leaped into orbit Wednesday evening (April 18) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station […] More
Men and women of the Bajau tribe row a boat at a fishing village on Kaledupa island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah) “They are simply a stranger to the land,” an anthropologist says of Southeast Asia’s Bajau people, and a new study shows their bodies have changed to account for that. The Bajau, who […] More
At first glance it may look like this monk seal pup is holding a large carrot in its mouth, but it’s actually the handle of a knife the sea creature picked up off a beach in Hawaii — and it could have killed the creature. The seal pup, named Manu‘iwa, was recently weaned from its mother and […] More
The start to the end of the world is nigh, according to doomsday writer David Meade. Meade told the U.K.’s Daily Express that April 23 will mark the end of the Earth. The conspiracy theorist said that the sun, moon and Jupiter, which supposedly represents the Messiah, will be in Virgo. Meade points to the Biblical passage […] More
Lyrid meteor shower: What to know In late April, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere will get a view of 2018’s Lyrid meteor shower. Here is everything you need to know about this year’s starry spectacle. Stargazers are going to appreciate these April showers. Night skies in the Northern Hemisphere are going to sparkle with meteors […] More
A man fishing off of a pier in Maryland had an unexpected encounter with a whale during a fishing trip last weekend. Troy Bickle, 25, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was fishing with his father and brother when he noticed a whale “coming toward us,” he told Fox News on Friday. Shortly after, the whale “came out […] More
A shark that hasn’t been seen in more than a decade was found at a fish market in Mumbai. (Evan Nazareth/Gulf Elasmo Project) A shark that hasn’t been seen in more than a decade was found in an unusual location: an Indian fish market. Conservationists spotted the critically endangered Ganges river shark in photographs taken […] More
The San Quintin kangaroo rat, which was last spotted in 1986, was recently discovered by researchers in Baja California. (San Diego Natural History Museum) Researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum and the non-profit Terra Peninsular were scratching their heads when they found unfamiliar rodents in traps they placed around a field in Baja California. They were […] More
Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area are living along a fault that is a “ticking time bomb” that could generate an earthquake that could kill hundreds, according to a report released Wednesday. The U.S. Geological Survey said in a report called the “HayWired Scenario” that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Hayward Fault located under […] More
Dylan McWilliams, 20, has been bitten by a shark, a bear and a rattlesnake – all in less than four years. (Courtesy of Dylan McWilliams (Facebook)) A Colorado man achieved a distinction last week that few people would probably want to match. When Dylan McWilliams was bitten by a shark Thursday in Hawaii, it meant […] More