I am so happy you guys are here ... I'm drowning still in Dutch studying but once I reach the shore, I can't wait to be BACK!

A photo of a mummified hand with skin and nails still in tact. The hand is gently closed, and the skin is a dark brown. The specimen is in remarkable condition despite its age.

The hand of Old Croghan Man, a 2000-year-old bog body that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. The man's apparently manicured nails led to speculation that he was not someone who engaged in manual labour.
Based off the man's arm span, he stood approximately 6'6'' tall.

California researchers discover mysterious, gelatinous new sea slug More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it was a new species of sea slug.

Over two decades after being spotted, a bioluminescent sea slug species found in deep sea off California

A collection of newspapers declaring that no lives were lost in the sinking of the Titanic.

In the Age of Misinformation, let's remember these headlines after the Titanic sank.

During wireless chatter, someone asked: "Are the Titanic passengers safe?” An answer came: "The ship is being towed to Halifax and everyone is ok." That 2nd transmission didnt refer to the Titanic, hence the error.

New Zealand seen from the ISS

a submarine with the word excelsior on the side is floating in the ocean ALT: a submarine with the word excelsior on the side is floating in the ocean

I can’t stop thinking about the ocean aliens, I wonder if they’re hungry, we should send them another can of billionaires.

Did you know #kakapo are here too? They're the world's biggest and only flightless parrot, found only in New Zealand/Aotearoa. They're critically endangered with just 244 left. They don't follow the rules and do everything very slowly.... #conservation #parrots

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Hey! I'm a climate journalist based in Los Angeles. I cover climate change and things that intersect with it — especially immigration, agriculture and Indigenous rights

I'm looking for my climate people over here 💚

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Hello new friends and old!

🧪I am a palaeobiologist…

🦣 …who uses (mostly) fossil elephants to understand evolution, (de)extinction & climate change

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A massive coral colony dwarfing a single diver

On Wednesday, a team of researchers in the Solomon Islands revealed that they found the world’s largest individual coral colony. It’s the size of two basketball courts.

Just look at this chonky boy!

In the Malheur National Forest in Michigan there is a single fungus that stretches nearly four square miles underground with a combined weight of around 35000 tons and an estimated lifespan of around 8500 years. It's the oldest of five humongous funguses within the forest, each genetically distinct.

Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.

Move over, blue whale. This 300+ year old 34m coral is now the largest animal* known. Hopefully its depth, as described, can keep it going 🦑🧪

*colony of animals