Science

The first supermoon – a phenomenon where the moon looks larger than normal – of this year is to take place on Saturday night. Chances are, you’ll get a good look at it. Saturday night’s local forecast is expected to be partly cloudy with no chance of rain.

The US National Zoo’s surviving giant panda cub is a boy and was fathered by the zoo’s male panda, the zoo said on Friday. Genetic testing also showed that he was sired by China’s panda, Tian Tian, the zoo tweeted.

Knut, the star polar bear who was hand-reared at Berlin zoo after his mother rejected him, had a type of auto-immune inflation of the brain that is found in humans, researchers said on Thursday. Researchers said that the non-infectious condition probably had nothing to do with his captivity or the fact that he was hand-reared by a devoted zoo keeper, …

Researchers are closely monitoring a young killer whale with an injury that may have been caused by a boat strike off the coast of Vancouver Island. The whale was spotted with a fresh wound on its flank and dorsal fin on Saturday in Johnstone Strait.

A new species of lizard may just be the missing link for lizard evolution. Scientists have discovered a fossil lizard, named Gueragama sulamericana, which dates back to the outcrops of a Late Cretaceous desert that existed about 80 million years ago.

A group of Canadian whale watchers have been left breathless after a humpback did an incredible flip out of the water just metres from their boat. The animal was captured flinging its massive frame into the air by Penny Graham, the head of a marine life sightseeing tour in the region.

Massive 920-pound gator pulled from Alabama lake could break record. It took six men to pull in and secure the 13-foot 6-inch alligator, according to AL.com. The reptile was caught by friends Scott Evans, Jeff and Justin Gregg on August 14. The gator was weighed at Dixon Lumber Co., AL.com reports.

Greenland Massive Glacier Calf Spotted from Space. New NASA satellite images reveal that the Jakobshavn glacier may have lost a massive chunk of ice, possibly setting a new record. The new images that NASA snapped from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite were acquired 16 days apart in August 2015. The top image shows the position …

Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Washington National Zoo, gave birth to two live cubs on Saturday. The first cub was born at 5:35 p.m. and the second came along at 10:07 p.m., and also appears to be in good health, the Zoo announced.

One of Queensland’s favourite sons is swapping the sunny Gold Coast for chilly Canada. Henry, the second polar bear to be born in Australia, will make the move from his home at Sea World in October to the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat.

NASA has announced the start of construction for a revolutionary new satellite-based system expected to drastically improve hurricane forecasts. Hurricanes can change direction and intensity without warning and what looks like a mild one headed safely out to sea can quickly gain power and turn landward. Unfortunately, current satellite monitoring systems can only look at such storms periodically, which can …