Science

A school of fossilized fish estimated to be 60 million years old was discovered in the basement of a new development in northwest Calgary. Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontologist and assistant professor of geoscience at the University of Calgary, was called to the site of a housing development in early April to investigate some fossils.

Man in kayak reels in 552-pound giant Fish “Goliath Grouper”. According to the video description provided by Chew On This, the man in the Kayak is Jon Black from the Crazy Lure Tackle Shop. The fish, which is a giant grouper, measured in at 83 inches long and over 73 inches in girth, putting its estimated weight at 552 pounds.

The young false killer whale rescued near Tofino last summer is staying at the Vancouver Aquarium, potentially as a companion to its sole surviving dolphin.

Unusually Buff Kangaroo Intimidates Australian. He’s an impressively massive kangaroo with muscles that would make Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson jealous. According to the Huffington Post, the burly ‘roo is said to be 6-foot-5 and is estimated to weigh almost 210 pounds. Big Buck hopped into the town of Brisbane in Australia and has been intimidating residents with his rippling physique.

A terrified mother and child’s final moments after the devastating Pompeii volcano have been unearthed for the first time in 1,900 years.

13 great white sharks were spotted in waters off Sunset Beach in Huntington Beach. Just over a month after local officials closed beaches in San Clemente due to shark sightings, over a dozen young great white sharks were spotted off Sunset Beach, just north of Huntington by a police helicopter. The sharks, estimated between six to ten feet, were spotted …

The oldest stone tools ever discovered, dating back 3.3 million years, have been unearthed in Kenya. Until now it was thought that stone tool culture began around 2.6 million years ago with the appearance of Homo habilis, or “handy man”, the earliest known member of the human genus family that includes people living today.

U.S. Air Force mini shuttle back in orbit for secret mission. The Air Force launched its unmanned mini-shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida, late Wednesday morning. An Atlas V rocket carried it up.

A dallas man who paid $350,000 to kill a black rhino in Namibia successfully shot the animal on Monday, saying that his actions would help protect the critically-endangered species. He was accompanied by a CNN camera crew that documented the multiday hunt, which took a farcical turn when one of the aging, aggressive rhinos designated “high-priority threats to the herd” …

Researchers are offering up explanations after millions of baby spiders appeared to rain down on Goulburn, Australia, in early May, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Great white shark cruising East Coast becomes Twitter star, helping draw attention to research. An organization studying great white sharks is enjoying some welcome attention after one of the creatures they’ve been monitoring started gaining a loyal social media following. @MaryLeeShark is the fake Twitter handle for a very real, nearly 3,500-pound great white whose movements can be tracked online …