This breathtaking photo was taken by Chloé Bès of France. It highlights the beak and eye of a single glaucous-winged gull near Rausu port, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Not all tech needs to be a distraction.
Mycologists have identified a species of mushroom that induces hallucinations of dozens and sometimes hundreds of tiny people. The fungi is native to China and the Philippines.
Fungi are really important to science, but aging them correctly is much more difficult than you'd think.
Scientists have long thought cynodonts, the ancestors of all modern mammals, laid eggs. For the first time, researchers have found evidence to the contrary.
The cottonmouth had likely been looking for a dark spot to digest its big meal.
“Calling them ‘stupid’ for being naive makes it sound like they deserved to go extinct, which is so unfair.”
