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Sea spiders can regrow their anuses, new study finds
1-29-2023 |
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A new study has highlighted the impressive (and sometimes bizarre) regenerative abilities of sea spiders.
Octopus is filmed punching a fish in the face
VIDEO 12-26-2020 | 7
Octopuses and fish sometimes work together to find food, but this unlikely alliance doesn't always work out.
Bronze Age Brits turned bones into instruments
9-1-2020 | 6
During the Bronze Age, our ancestors would sometimes turn the bones of their relatives into musical instruments.
'Sleeping Beauty' naps for weeks at a time
3-25-2019 | 6
A woman with a rare sleeping disorder can sometimes spend weeks sleeping up to 22 hours a day.
Earth could be under 'galactic quarantine'
3-25-2019 | 176
An international group of scientists met in Paris last week to discuss why we have yet to encounter alien life.
Bees can do arithmetic, new study finds
2-7-2019 | 6
Scientists from Australia and France have determined that bees are capable of mastering basic maths skills.
Plant-eating dinosaurs sometimes ate crabs
9-24-2017 | 6
Fossilized droppings have revealed that some herbivorous dinosaurs occasionally snacked on seafood.
Scientists are planning to contact aliens
12-28-2016 | 97
An organization in San Francisco is planning to send messages out to potentially habitable planets.
Why do frogs sometimes rain from the sky ?
9-10-2015 | 22
Peculiar showers of frogs, fish and other strange things have been reported for thousands of years.
Large eels fall from the sky over Alaska
6-11-2015 | 16
Arctic lamprey eels measuring several feet in length have been observed plummeting from the heavens.
Phantom eye patients 'see' with missing eye
6-9-2015 | 7
People who have lost an eye to illness sometimes report strange visual sensations and phantom images.
Why do we cry tears of happiness ?
11-14-2014 | 19
Why do we sometimes burst in to tears when we are experiencing something overwhelmingly positive ?
Lab-grown skin to replace testing on animals
4-25-2014 | 16
Human skin grown from stem cells in the lab could put an end to drug and cosmetics testing on animals.
Cosmetics firm in bid to lighten the Moon
4-21-2014 | 32
The company wants to make the Moon brighter for the purpose of lowering global energy usage.
Why do animals sometimes rain from the sky ?
4-16-2014 | 36
Stories of frogs, fish and other creatures falling from the sky like rain have been told for centuries.
Earth sometimes hit by two asteroids at once
3-19-2014 | 6
Scientists have discovered a double-impact site in Sweden thought to be the result of a binary asteroid.
Plants capable of complex arithmetic
6-23-2013 | 26
Scientists have discovered evidence that plants are capable of complex mathematical calculations.
Dead birds rain from sky over New Jersey
8-16-2012 | 18
Dozens of dead birds littered the streets this week after plummeting from the New Jersey skies.
Lightning strikes "out of the blue"
7-31-2011 | 10
Sometimes lightning can strike when we least expect it - even when there is a clear blue sky.
Legendary giant earthworm found
4-30-2010 | 28
Sometimes compared to the Loch Ness Monster due to its mysterious nature the giant earthworm has finally been found.
