Fish with anemone –Credit: Rich Collins and Linda Ianniello Photos A new discovery has revealed that relationships between fish and sea anemones are more diverse than those portrayed in Finding Nemo. It suggests that there the former may use the latter as a tool of self defense, while the latter uses the former as transportation. Captured through breathtaking blackwater photography, …
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Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers were able to study the chemistry surrounding a world called CT Cha b. Though no moons have yet been detected in this particular …
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Around 95 million years ago, small crocodile-like creatures with strange, sheathed teeth burrowed along the shores of the Western Interior Seaway in what is now southwest Montana, a new study suggests. The new research describes the first such creature ever discovered — a teenage croc nicknamed Elton that measured about 2 feet (60 centimeters) long from nose to tail tip. …
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Meet the “bumpy snailfish.” The adorable new species of deep-sea snailfish was captured on camera by MBARI researchers (Photo credit: MBARI 2019). Researchers have filmed an adorable, previously unknown species of deep-sea snailfish with oversized eyes more than 10,700 feet beneath the ocean surface. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovered the super-cute animal using a remotely …
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A bumpy, pink fish with blue eyes and beard-like appendages has been filmed hovering over the muddy bottom of Monterey Canyon, at a depth of more than 10,700 feet (3,300 meters) off the coast of California. This strange little snailfish, captured on camera by a group led by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), turned out to …
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Never-before-seen footage has captured thousands of catfish climbing a waterfall in southern Brazil — the first detailed observation of the species migrating. Bumblebee catfish (Rhyacoglanis paranesis) get their name from the black spots on their orange bodies and their tiny size, with the fish reaching just 3.5 inches (89.2 millimeters) in length. The small jumping fish were filmed scaling slippery …
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A mysterious fungus is turning spiders into real-life ‘zombies,’ consuming their organs and taking control of their behavior. Known as Gibellula attenboroughii, the fungus attaches to the spider, invades its body and devours it from the inside out. It then manipulates the spider’s brain chemistry, altering dopamine levels to force the insect out of its web and into the open, …
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Scientists may have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova, after using a Spotify-like artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the skies for strange activity. The AI unearthed signs of what could have been a huge star blowing up just as it was attempting to gulp down a nearby black hole. The stellar explosion, dubbed SN 2023zkd, was spotted in July 2023 …
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Roughly 2.6 million-year-old fossilized teeth found in Ethiopia might belong to a previously unknown early human relative, researchers say. The teeth are from a species of Australopithecus, the genus that includes Lucy (A. afarensis). But these newly discovered teeth don’t appear to belong to any known species of Australopithecus, according to a new study published in the journal Nature on …
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In Argentina’s Patagonia, researchers have uncovered a previously unknown dinosaur species that lived approximately 95 million years ago. Named Astigmasaura genuflexa, this massive plant-eating sauropod measured nearly 60 feet in length and weighed more than 10 tons, placing it among the last members of the Rebbachisauridae family before their disappearance around 90 million years ago. The discovery is detailed in …
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