Science

A Mysterious 50 foot giant monster crab was caught on camera yards from British harbour.

The dinos are back. The Calgary Zoo is bringing gigantic, fleshly, roaring dinosaur models to the Prehistoric Park in March 2015.

A hoard of Viking treasure has been unearthed by a metal-detecting enthusiast in what has been described as ‘one of the most significant finds of its kind ever made in Scotland’. The treasure is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh at the Vikings exhibition, which runs until May. The hoard includes a solid silver cross thought …

Greenpeace posted this Vine as part of their Cephalopod Week, showing a squid attacking a Greenpeace submarine during a Bering Sea expedition. The humongous squid sprays ink all around and almost appears to beat at the submarine.

Researchers in Taiwan have named a new species of land snail in honor of the fight for same-sex marriage rights, according to a report in the journal Zookeys. Aegista subchinensis was first described in 1884 and was thought to be widely distributed in Taiwan. In 2003, one of the co-authors Dr. Yen-Chang Lee noticed that there was morphological divergence between the …

Two research teams working in the same laboratories at UNSW Australia have found distinct solutions to challenges facing the realisation of super powerful quantum computers. The teams are said to have created two types of quantum bits – qubits –that each process quantum data with an accuracy above 99 per cent. The two findings have been published simultaneously in the …

A species of mussel which threatens to wipe out thousands of native animals and fish has been discovered in a reservoir near London Heathrow Airport. Quagga mussels are less than 5cm long but breed so prolifically their vast colonies, which attach on to hard surfaces, can smother boat hulls, block pipes and potentially cause flooding.

The emerald ash borer, which is destroying ash trees in a large swath of the nation, has apparently spread to a different tree, a researcher at Wright State University suspects. Biology professor Don Cipollini, Ph.D., director of the Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program, has found that the invasive green beetle has apparently begun to attack white fringetree.

The Air Force’s space drone, more officially known as the X-37B unmanned mini-shuttle, will be coming back to Earth this week after a mysterious 22 month mission in orbit. This is the third space drone launched, and the longest mission for any of them since they started getting built on contract by United Launch Alliance, the joint Boeing and Lockheed …

Beaches at Dunsborough remain closed after two men in an inflatable were attacked by a shark there on Saturday. The pair were near Castle Rock when a shark attacked and punctured their boat just after 5pm, the ABC reported on its website.

13-year-old Alyssa Carlson is the first person to complete NASA’s Passport Program, and is setting her sights on being the first human to step foot on Mars.