Science

An incredibly rare Megamouth shark has been snared by fishermen. The animal was caught in fishing nets around five kilometres from the Owase Port in Mie Prefecture, central Japan.

New analysis reveals a dwarf dark galaxy which has been distorted by the gravity of a foreground galaxy. Astronomers have found a dwarf dark galaxy hidden in Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope’s image. In 2014, as part of ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign, astronomers studied a variety of astronomical objects to test the telescope’s new high-resolution capabilities. One of these …

Scientists from the University of Washington have discovered the secrets of the monarch butterfly’s inner, genetically encoded compass that they use to determine the direction . When the leaves fall to the ground in August, monarch butterflies all over Canada and the United States face the Rio Grande and make a beeline for Mexico. They travel some 2000 odd miles …

A Massachusetts man captured helicopter footage of a large group of seals resting on the shore of a beach in Cape Cod. The pilot says the video is causing quite a stir on social media, and raising concerns about the seal population.

Thousands of light-years away, on the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have detected something no one’s ever seen before – a binary star (two stars orbiting a common centre of mass) that’s moving so fast, it’s clocked speeds that almost rival the escape velocity of our galaxy. The binary system is called PB3877, and at 18,000 light years away …

This is the terrifying moment a gigantic cannibal alligator eats one of its own. Footage filmed by Alex Figueroa shows a gator estimated to be 11 to 12 feet long munching on a much smaller alligator before carrying its meal to another location. Local news station ABC Action News reports it’s common for alligators to become cannibalistic during their mating …

A video recorded and posted to YouTube is spreading online like wildfire because of the incredible creature it captured. The marine iguana, found only in the Galapagos Islands, has the unique ability to forage underwater. It survives on algae and seaweed, while land-dwelling iguanas eat insects and other critters. The “tiny Godzilla” grows to a length of 4 to 5 …

Cannibal Galaxy Gets Bigger by Gobbling Up Galactic Neighbors. It’s a cluster of almost 60 galaxies, the centre of which lies 65 million light-years from Earth. Using the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, astronomers have imaged in incredible detail one of the closest galaxy clusters to Earth, called the Fornax Cluster.

An ancient mummy discovered in Mongolia seems to be way ahead of its time fashion wise – by wearing Adidas trainers. Partial remains of a woman who is believed to have died some 1,500-years ago have been found, nearly 10,000 feet high in the Altai Mountains. So far, they have found only one hand and the mummy’s feet.

Canada experienced a very high number of reported UFO sightings in 2015, according to an annual survey released by Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Ufology Research. In March, there was a report of someone who said “star like light appeared to change shape.” Then in May, there was a report of “bright orange lights moving across the sky.” In August someone said they …

A common New Zealand octopus called Inky has escaped from his enclosure and bolted for freedom during a daring nighttime escape. Aquarium staff believe Inky escaped at night by squeezing through a tiny gap at the top of its tank before sliding across the aquarium floor into the sea via 50m long drainpipe. In addition to being considered intelligent, octopuses …