Science

If you looked up to the skies last night you may have noticed just how bright the moon was. NASA says, this summer’s full moons will all be supermoons, which appear larger and brighter than normal. The first is this weekend, so if you missed Friday night’s, you’ll get another chance Saturday night.

Since 2011, the New York State Government has spent more than $30 million trying to combat invasive plant and animal species. This week, state officials urge the public to join in the fight.

It took authorities five attempts over 38 hours to rescue a stranded two year-old humpback whale on Australia’s Gold Coast. Scores of volunteer rescuers fought valiantly to free a young humpback stranded on an Australian Beach for nearly two days.

Climate Central, which is an independent organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public, released an interactive map that allows users to discover potential climates across the US.

The vexed question of whether intelligence is inherited from birth or acquired through education seems to have been answered – for chimpanzees at least. Researchers have found that being a smart primate is down to genes rather than upbringing, suggesting that nature rather than nurture governs intelligent behaviour in our closest living relatives.

A rare type of whale that washed up on a beach near Tofino has been rescued and brought back to the Vancouver Aquarium’s rescue centre for evaluation.

Venus the chimera cat has a face you’ll remember. In fact, she looks rather two-faced. Her left eye is green while her right is blue. And the left side of her face is covered in black fur while the right is orange. Venus was found on a North Carolina dairy farm in 2009, and her owner was drawn to her …

A new video based on fossils of a 410-million-year-old arachnid uses computer animation to recreate the animal walking. The arachnid belonged to the extinct order Trigonotarbida, and was a member of the Devonian genus Palaeocharinus, which was one of the first predators on land. Scientists from the University of Manchester and the Museum für Naturkunde used exceptionally preserved fossils from the …

For polar bears, iconic Arctic animals that are coping with diminished sea ice and a rapidly-changing habitat, population numbers are important. But for biologists trying to learn those numbers, the job of counting white bears in a vast white landscape is difficult, expensive and sometimes dangerous. Now, polar bear researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations have found …

Dinosaur Track Site has been discovered by the Alaska’s Denali National Park. The track site suggests that many dinosaurs might have walked through the track. The fossil evidence has furthermore strengthened the conviction that Dinosaur lived at the polar latitudes at the end of the Cretaceous Age. The researchers have estimated the time to be around 70 million years while …

A whale that stranded on the southern Gold Coast on Tuesday night has been successfully ‘relaunched’ by Sea World staff this morning. The marine rescuer workers first tried to rescue the juvenile humpback yesterday, after it beached at Palm Beach late on Tuesday. But authorities struggled to move it offshore during yesterday’s high tide, and were forced to suspend the …