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The Jacksonville Jaguars experienced some infighting during the team’s 31-27 Week 2 loss against the Cincinnati Bengals. Late in Sunday’s contest, Jags quarterback Trevor Lawrence appeared to wave off head coach Liam Coen after throwing an inaccurate pass. The exchange occurred on a second-down play with 4:14 left in the game. With the Jaguars up by three and looking to …

Deep in the steamy rainforests of Panama lives a spectacular-looking animal with an extravagant trick; the matador bug, Bitta alipes, sports vivid red patches on its back legs, which it raises and waves in a striking display. For a long time, scientists assumed this flamboyant performance was part of courtship. But a new study, published in Current Zoology, has overturned that …

In the 2006 disaster film Poseidon, a luxury cruise ship is capsized by a towering rogue wave, leaving its passengers to fight for survival. While Hollywood often exaggerates, massive and extremely dangerous rogue waves are very real.  These walls of water, often rising more than twice the height of surrounding seas, can strike without warning, swallowing ships whole and crippling …

On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck — but its biggest impact was what it left behind: hard data. It was the first time a rogue wave had ever been measured in the open …

Using gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, astronomers have discovered that a “stellar graveyard” is packed with mergers between extreme stellar remnants like black holes and neutron stars, created when massive stars die in supernova explosions. Evidence of these mergers also came in the form of the most massive binary black holes …

For centuries, sailors spoke of colossal rogue waves that appeared without warning, dismissed by many as mere maritime lore. Now, new research reveals these towering walls of water aren’t oceanic mysteries at all — but the natural outcome of ordinary wave physics aligning in extraordinary ways. Credit: Shutterstock Rogue waves are not anomalies but the result of normal ocean dynamics. …

Hurricane Erin’s waves lash N.C.: Nearly 40M under coastal flood alerts  Axios Live updates: Hurricane Erin tracks north along the East Coast  CNN 2 more beachfront homes near collapse as Hurricane Erin’s waves pound North Carolina’s Outer Banks  AP News Hurricane Erin Bulletin #5 | Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 2 p.m.  Dare County, NC (.gov) Hurricane Erin live updates: Storm strengthens as North …

These places will be hit by big waves and flooding as Hurricane Erin passes  The Washington Post Hurricane Erin To Bring Storm Surge Flooding, Tropical Storm Winds To North Carolina, East Coast Rip Currents  The Weather Channel Hurricane Erin’s life-threatening impacts cause tropical alerts to expand from North Carolina to Delmarva  FOX Weather Dare County News  Dare County, NC (.gov) Assateague Island, Ocean City, …

Hurricane Erin remained far out at sea on Tuesday, yet it was still producing huge swells, with waves towering 20ft (6 meters) or more and crashing across sand dunes along North Carolina’s barrier islands. The storm was tracking northward, running roughly parallel to the east coast, according to the US’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. Though not projected to …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hurricane Erin is poised to bring deadly rip currents to the entire US East Coast, as well as destructive waves and storm surge to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Meanwhile, Atlantic hurricane season is hitting its stride, threatening to spin up another named storm in Erin’s wake. Erin, a sprawling Category 3 hurricane that exploded in strength …