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Behold Timurlengia—the Elusive Missing Link in Tyrannosaur Evolution

Say hello to Timurlengia euotica, a horse-sized dinosaur that lived roughly 90 million years ago. Discovered in Uzbekistan, this newly described species was a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, and it’s helping scientists explain how relatively small carnivores evolved into the gigantic predators that dominated the Late Cretaceous. There’s a surprising and inexplicable absence of…

When Life Gives You Lemons, Here’s How to Use Them to Make Fire

You can now add lemons to the long list of random objects that can be used to start a fire. But unlike just generating friction and heat by rubbing two sticks together, the process of starting a fire using a piece of citrus fruit involves first turning it into a working battery with copper and…

Trump’s Autographed Bibles, Guitars, and Boxing Gloves Are on eBay If That’s Your Kind of Thing

Donald Trump rallies almost always devolve into autograph-signing sessions. And many of those signed items are showing up on eBay. A wide variety of Trump-signed items are just a click away, if that’s the kind of kinky shit you’re into. Like this Bible, autographed by Trump, which is going for $3,500: The only bible signed…

Spider Bondage Exists and It Is Gnarly as Hell

Spiders are notorious for their bizarre and often violent mating practices. New research shows that, in order to avoid getting eaten during sex, male nursery spiders will tie up their partners with silken threads. And yes, it’s as horrible as it sounds. The males of at least 30 spider species have been observed to wrap…

A Miniature Mr. T Makes This 40th Anniversary Rocky Figure Set Totally Worth it

It’s been 40 years since Rocky first jabbed his way into the movies, and to help celebrate the film’s anniversary, NECA is relaunching a few of its classic figures in a new seven-inch set featuring two variations on both Sylvester Stallone’s title character, and Mr. T’s Clubber Lang. The Rocky Balboa and Clubber Lang figures…

Man in Wingsuit Flies Through a Narrow Opening Between Two Antennas

And the kick is good! I always think of a field goal in football whenever something splits the uprights of two standing posts only in this instance, it’s not a football and a goalpost but a human being in a wingsuit that’s flying through the narrow opening of two antennas. Watch as Guillame Galvani jumps…

See the First Photos of Brand New Aliens and Ships in Star Wars Episode VIII

Director Rian Johnson has been filming Star Wars Episode VIII for a few weeks now, but most of the work has been conducted behind closed doors. That changed recently—the production has shifted to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Outside filming means spy photos and in them, we get our first look at some new aliens and ships. Here…

How Japanese Artists Make Fake Plastic Food Look So Damn Delicious

It’s a technique that’s used around the world to show off the meals available in restaurants, but artists at a small factory in Japan are absolute masters at making the plastic demo meals look almost more delicious than the real thing. It’s definitely better than looking at faded photos in a printed menu, that’s for…

Gotham May Make a Spin-Off About Alfred and Literally Nothing Makes Sense Anymore

So DC Entertainment has registered a trademark for the name Pennyworth, for a “production of live-action, dramatic comedy television series.” Yes, DC seems to be at least thinking about giving Bruce Wayne’s butler/thug Alfred his own series. WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING. Let’s ignore the fact that Alfred Pennyworth is a goddamn psychopath and concentrate on…

What The Hell Is Going On in Orphan Black‘s Trippy New Trailer?

There’s a lot of “whoa, what?” moments in this fast-paced Orphan Black trailer, and honestly, it’s a little confusing at times. But I’ll be damned if it’s not trippy as hell. This wacky theme BBC America’s trying out with the trailers for the show’s fourth season really is fantastic—and bloody weird, especially with a beat…

Is Radiation Actually Dangerous for You?

Radiation is all around us and too much of radiation is a bad thing so… are we all just screwed from all the radio waves and microwaves and ultraviolet radiation and rainbows and x-rays and radon and nuclear radiation in the world? Not exactly. Ted-Ed explains in the video animation below how not all radiation…

Simple Stickers Help You Figure Out Where All Your Gadgets Are Plugged In

The tangled mess of wires under your desk isn’t just an eyesore. It can also make it impossible to figure out where every gadget on your desk is plugged in. Is it safe to unplug this adapter? Oops, there goes the backup drives. Unless, of course, everything was properly labeled with easy to interpret stickers.…

Berlin’s Oddest Buildings Look Unreal Out of Context

In the years after World War II, Berlin saw a number of new skyscrapers erected to provide the burgeoning middle class with affordable housing. Even though many were designed by famous architects they were eventually viewed as concrete monsters and moldered in disuse, until recently. In a recent series, 36-year-old photographer Malte Brandenburg sought to…

Preacher Arrives on AMC This May

Well, this is a pleasant surprise—AMC has announced that its awesome-looking Preacher adaptation will premiere May 22nd, meaning you’ll get to see Jesse and his friends (and his unpleasant foes) on the small screen a lot sooner than we all expected. The news was released through the show’s Twitter account, alongside a new picture of…

Curiosity’s Next Mission Will Focus on Life on Mars

The Curiosity rover was sent up to Mars with the important job of hunting for microbes on the red planet’s surface. Now, that job is done, and Curiosity is getting a new mission—and that mission is all about the past, and future, of life on Mars. A new team of scientists was just selected to…

The Director of 10 Cloverfield Lane Explains All About That Wild Ending

We all went into 10 Cloverfield Lane wondering how it connects to the original Cloverfield. We walked out of it analyzing the totally bonkers ending, and realizing the thriller is actually a kind of heroic origin story. io9 spoke with director Dan Trachtenberg, who explained why the ending was the whole point of the movie.…

My Smartphone Gave Me a Painful Neurological Condition

A few months ago I started getting headaches, and they were weird. If a bad hangover headache feels splitting, I’d describe these headaches as searing, as if someone had hit me over the head with a red hot rod of steel sending electric bolts of pain across my skull. By the time I finally went…

We may gently mock Shadowhunters on a weekly basis, but the supernatural creaturefest/fashion parade has been a hit for Freeform—and it’ll be returning for season two. The news was announced during a giddy Facebook chat session, which yielded no other new information except for the fact that the cast has a bet going as to…

The Surprising Reason Our Planet Isn’t Heating Up Even Faster

In research that adds new truth to the phrase “every cloud has a silver lining,” scientists are reporting that sulfate aerosol emissions have offset roughly a third of global warming over the Earth’s land, by scattering sunlight back into space. What’s more, reductions in European air pollution may be contributing to the rapid Arctic warming…

We Finally Know What’s Going to Be on That San Diego Comic-Con TV Channel 

We knew that San Diego Comic-Con was making its own subscription video-on-demand channel, and we knew that it would be filling its airtime during the many days Comic-Con isn’t happening with “original short-form content.” Now we know what some of the content is, and it sounds… not bad? A new press release was passed around…