Oceanography
Killer whales carrying dead salmon leave scientists baffled
Killer whales off the coast of Washington state have been carrying salmon carcasses on their heads for decades, but researchers still don't know why they do it.
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Archeology
145 million year old fossil cypress forest along the English coast
The Petrified Forest of Dorset is a stretch of coastal southern England dotted with limestone mounds containing the remains of late Jurassic cypress trees.
1001 mystery
Mysterious object appears on Florida beach
Archaeologists discovered a wooden and metal object, about 25m long, appearing on the coast of Florida, USA when the tide receded.
Archeology
The first block of amber discovered in Antarctica
For the first time, researchers have found pieces of amber from a sedimentary basin off the coast of Antarctica.
Scientific works
The world's first artificial energy island
Located 45km off the coast, Princess Elisabeth Energy Island becomes the world's first electricity grid in the North Sea, connecting offshore wind farms to Belgium and E…
Oceanography
Killer whale pair kills 17 sharks a day
A pair of killer whales off the coast of South Africa kill sharks to remove their livers while leaving the other parts intact.
Oceanography
Titan submarine crushed, 5 people on board died
The US Coast Guard said debris recovered showed the Titan submarine had been sunk.
Environment
Typhoon Kong-rey appears off the coast of the Philippines, unpredictable developments, new landfall location forecast
Storm Kong-rey - a storm forecast to become a super typhoon - is evolving unpredictably, changing direction suddenly and the location of its landfall is already known.
Photo library
Amazing wildlife footage from above
Aerial photos capturing unique views of wildlife win Siena Drone Photo Awards 2024.
Space science
NASA and SpaceX postpone Europa Clipper launch due to Hurricane Milton
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on October 7 that it would postpone the Europa Clipper mission to guard against the impact of Hurri…
Environment
Hurricane Milton hits Florida - USA, causing a series of 'sky monsters'
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced that Hurricane Milton weakened to a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale but is still a strong storm.
Environment
The culprit that caused unprecedented ferocity of storms Yagi and Helene
Faced with increasingly stronger storms, scientists have called for expanding the Saffir-Simpson scale to level 6 for storms with winds above 308km/h.
Oceanography
For the first time in history, fish in the sea 1,000 meters deep washed ashore
For the first time in history, a fish living thousands of meters below the sea floor washed ashore at Cannon Beach, Oregon (USA) last weekend.
Oceanography
Decode thousands of mysterious craters on the California seabed
Thanks to underwater robots, researchers discovered more than 5,000 craters on the seafloor off the coast of California that were not caused by leaking methane gas.
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Hearing the noise, the man witnessed a scary scene in the tree
A Gold Coast man filmed a python swallowing a marsupial whole in his backyard.