Sloths The Size of Elephants Roamed America, Before Abruptly Vanishing : ScienceAlert
Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like…
The Universe’s Most Powerful Cosmic Rays May Finally Be Explained : ScienceAlert
Somewhere in our galaxy are engines capable of driving atomic fragments to velocities that come within a whisker…
Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children : ScienceAlert
An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us to not underestimate animal intelligence.…
Chance X-Ray Discovery Reveals Mystery Object 15,000 Light Years Away : ScienceAlert
The mystery of strangely blinking objects scattered throughout the Milky Way just deepened. Something 15,000 light-years away from…
Scientists Have Clear Evidence of Martian Atmosphere ‘Sputtering’ : ScienceAlert
For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of…
Anti-Aging Cocktail Extends Mouse Lifespan by About 30 Percent : ScienceAlert
Scientists in Europe have tested an anti-aging drug cocktail in mice and found that it extended the animals’…
World’s First CRISPR-Edited Spiders Shoot Fluoro Red Silk From Their Butt : ScienceAlert
Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe’s Spider-Man, researchers in…
The Big Bang’s Glowing ‘Echo’ May Be Something Else Entirely : ScienceAlert
Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how…
Bizarre Three-Eyed Predator Hunted The Ocean Half a Billion Years Ago : ScienceAlert
A predator that swam Earth’s oceans more than half a billion years ago is unlike any creature that…
Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna’s Mysterious ‘Pseudo-Pouch’ : ScienceAlert
Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia’s wackiest animals. They’re mammals, which means they feed their young…