The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to science as Atractosteus spatula, it is the largest of the gar species alive today and among the largest fish in North America. Dr Solomon David, AKA “The Gar Guy”, has had more experience than most with these freshwater giants. So, when …
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Not a snow game, but a hail game. PublishedOctober 5, 2025 10:08 AM EDT•UpdatedOctober 5, 2025 10:08 AM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link At first glance, it looked like we were treated to a snow game in early October with Wyoming welcoming UNLV to War Memorial Stadium in Laramie on Saturday. In reality, the town was pounded by a …
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Let me be clear: this is not an emulator. Natalie did not stuff a Raspberry Pi in here. It’s far more impressive than that. What you’re seeing are real Game Boy cartridges, running on real Game Boy chips, soldered to a real circuit board of Natalie’s own creation. Working buttons, too. To fit it into the Lego Game Boy, she …
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When scientists discover new prehistoric species, the fossils alone fail to conjure the creature in the flesh. It’s impossible to summon the entirety ancient shark from a single tooth, or some weird old rodent from a fragment of a jaw. This is where paleoart comes in, with illustrations that help you imagine how such an animal might have looked in …
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A giant plasma plume dubbed “The Beast” was recently spotted dancing above the sun as it showered our home star with blobs of impossibly fast fire. The shapeshifting projection, which stretched more than 13 times wider than Earth, was the first of several sizable solar structures to emerge in recent days. The animalistic mass appeared Saturday (July 12) over the …
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