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Storm Photographer Captures What Happens When 'All Hell Breaks Loose'
Nasty thunderstorms send most people running for shelter. Not Mitch Dobrowner. When bad weather starts brewing, the Long-Island born photographer goes chasing after it."Photographing a storm is...
View ArticleWatch How Particles In The Air Swirl Around The Globe
Every second of every day the air around you is full of particles. We only really notice these when they stream infront of a light beam through an open window, but they are always there, and they can...
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The World's Smelliest And Largest Flower Blooms In Brazil
Hundreds of visitors are flocking daily to a botanical garden in southeastern Brazil to watch the rare blooming of the Titan arum, the world's smelliest and largest tropical flower.Also known as the...
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100 Million Of These Neon Orange Shellfish Were Just Found In Scottish Waters
A colony of 100 million orange-tentacled shellfish, called flame shells, has been found in the waters west of Scotland. This is potentially the largest grouping of flame shells in the world,...
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A Bunch Of Sea Animals Washed Ashore In 2012
Many sea animals (and at least one land walker) seem to have lost their way this year, winding up on sandy shores instead of their native ocean home. For the majority of these critters, the story did...
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Alex Wild's Best Bug Pictures Of 2012
Since I’m asking everyone else to pony up a selection of their best science & nature photos of the year, I figure it’s only fair I participate. Here are 10 images I consider my personal favorites...
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Big Shark Bites Off Little Shark's Tail In Bone-Chilling Picture
This picture of a large shark chowing down on a smaller shark was posted by Reddit user Mancubus1 a few days ago. According to a New Zealand news outlet, the picture was taken off Kaiteriteri Beach in...
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These Apes Will Share Food, But Only With Strangers
Sharing is thought to be a unique human trait developed from social interactions and our ability to use language, but a new study published today, Jan. 2, by the journal PLOS ONE finds that bonobos...
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The Oddest Animal Couples In Nature
Sometimes friendship crosses species boundariesAn episode of Nature on PBS explores odd animal friendships, including animals that would normally attack each other in the wild, like a cheetah and a...
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Meet The Only Butterflies That Travel 2,000 Miles Each Winter
I recently had the opportunity to get a sneak preview of Flight of the Butterflies, which opens at the The American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Saturday, Jan 5. This movie taught me...
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Explorers Embark On First-Ever Attempt To Cross The Antarctic In Winter
British explorer Ranulph Fiennes and his five-man crew left Cape Town today aboard a polar vessel bound for Antarctica. When Fiennes and his team arrive on the icy continent in mid-March they will set...
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Growing Food In The Desert Could Solve The World's Food Problems
The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead...
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Team Will Trek 22 Miles A Day In Complete Darkness For Coldest Journey On Earth
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and five other explorers plan to be the first to cross the Antarctic in winter. The feat is dubbed "The Coldest Journey."The six-man team set off from Cape Town aboard a polar...
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Co-Leader Of Historic Antarctic Expedition Predicts 'Something Bad Will Happen'
Famed British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and five other team members set sail from Cape Town yesterday aboard the SA Agulhas, a 367-foot polar ship that will take the crew to the coldest place on...
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The World's Rarest Animals Recently Caught On Camera
Japanese scientists announced on Monday that they had captured the legendary giant squid on camera in its natural habitat for the first time ever. This isn't the only recent sighting of an extremely...
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Fukushima Cleanup Workers Have Been Dumping Contaminated Debris Into Rivers
After a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, officials promised to use cutting-edge technology from across the globe to mount the most ambitious radiological...
View Article1,000 Dolphins Stampede In Extremely Rare Phenomenon
Passengers on board Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari tour boat were treated to a rare sight this past weekend when around 1,000 common dolphins began to stampede off Dana Point in Southern...
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Photographer Captures Incredible Human Side Of Animals
British photographer Tim Flach is known for taking human-like photographs of animals. His latest body of work, called "More Than Human," captures the emotions of wild creatures through intensely close...
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Famous Antarctic Explorer Cut Off His Own Frostbitten Fingers To Save Money
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is touted as "the world's greatest living explorer." He has earned his reputation by surviving the most hostile environments on Earth. This includes being the first person to visit...
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Survivors Explain What It's Like To Get Struck By Lightning
The odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in a million. And the odds of surviving one of these major bolts of electricity are surprisingly good. Only about one in 10 people who are struck by...
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