The largest animal on Earth swims through the depths of the oceans, but 50 million years ago whales walked the land on four legs. A professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University reveals the massive creatures are descendants of an ancient ‘little deer,’ known as Indohyus. Through the research of cetaceans […]
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“This means that Mars has been dry for quite a long time,” said Eva Scheller, a Caltech graduate student who was the lead author of the Science paper. Today, there is still water equivalent to a global ocean 65 to 130 feet deep, but that is mostly frozen in the […]
Taking her time. Lo Bosworth has learned that recovering from her “really serious” head injury is a marathon — not a sprint. “I would say I have 85 percent improvement from where I was,” the 34-year-old former MTV personality told E! News in a candid interview on Friday, March 19, […]
NASA’s InSight spacecraft has measured the size of Mars’ core for the first time. The spacecraft launched in May 2018 and successfully landed on the red planet in November of that year. InSight — which is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport — was created to study the early evolution of terrestrial planets including the interior structure of Mars. […]
Let’s give ‘em something to talk about! Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews reunited eight months after they were fired from Dancing With the Stars. “Reunited & it feels so good with @erinandrews,” the former America’s Funniest Home Videos host, 65, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, March 18, alongside a photo […]
The Sydney Swans have made a “small but important change” to their club song by removing a gendered reference in an effort to promote inclusivity ahead of a possible move into the AFL Women’s league. Cheer, Cheer the Red and the White has, since its inception in 1961, included the […]
By Adam Vaughan An artist’s reconstruction of the ancient shark Aquilolamna milarcae Vullo et al., Science (2021) The discovery of a fossil in a Mexican quarry has revealed that a bizarre shark with manta ray-like wings slowly cruised the oceans more than 90 million years ago. Named Aquilolamna milarcae, the […]
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it, along with upstart company RTS, has acquired the Evolution Championship Series (Evo). RTS is a new venture from esports league company Endeavor, and the joint purchase brings the biggest annual fighting game tournament under Sony’s umbrella. So what’s changing? Exact plans haven’t been […]