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Tourists Flock To See A Giant Flower That Smells Like Rotting Flesh

Time is running out to see one of the world's largest and smelliest flowers, the Titan Arum, now in full bloom at the National Botanic Garden in Belgium.Also known as the "corpse flower" because it...

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An Oil Well Is Leaking Into The Gulf Of Mexico

The Coast Guard responded to a "loss of well control" in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, The Times-Picayune reports. The natural gas and crude oil platform is owned by Energy Resources Technology (ERT),...

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Air Pollution In Northern China Steals 5 Years Of Life From The Average Person

A new report suggests that air pollution in Northern China has shaved 5.5 years off the lifespan of people who live there, compared to those who live in the south of China.The study [PDF], published in...

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Rare Giant Jellyfish Sting Swimmers In California

A rare, massive jellyfish stung several beach-goers in Southern California over the holiday weekend, leaving swimmers with dark membranes clinging to their bodies as they came ashore, The Orange County...

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A New Map Shows All Of The World's Plants

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released on Wednesday a high-resolution map of all of the planet's vegetation from it's recently launched Proba-V satellite. It is beautiful.  The boxy Proba-V — the...

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This Film Will Convince Every Skeptic That Climate Change Is Real

Photographer James Balog went from being a climate-change skeptic to documenting our planet's rapidly melting glaciers. In the 2012 film"Chasing Ice" he gathers irrefutable evidence that climate change...

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How Giant Mirrors Will Bring Winter Sunlight To A Norwegian Town For The...

Rjukan, a small town in Southern Norway, does not receive any sunlight during the winter between September and March.The former industrial center is surrounded by high mountains that block the sun from...

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A New Dinosaur Has Been Discovered

A new species of horned dinosaur, Nasutoceratops titusi, was dug up in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.It looks a lot like the infamous Triceratops, but has a narrower, more...

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Say Goodbye To The Iberian Lynx

The Iberian lynx, the world's most endangered cat, will probably go extinct in 50 years as a result of climate change, a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change reports. The Iberian lynx looks...

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Student Survives 16 Hours Alone In The Middle Of The Ocean

Battling heat, fatigue, and jellyfish, a marine biology student studying in Honduras spent 16 hours stranded in the middle of the ocean Friday."I feel like I cheated death or cheated the ocean out of...

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72 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail Found In Mexican Desert

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute for...

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People Are Baffled And Angry At Google's Fundraiser For A Climate Change...

Silicon Valley's forays into Washington, D.C., lobbying are getting clumsier. First it was Facebook, which ended up supporting oil drilling in the Alaska wilderness (because it needed allies for its...

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Humpback Whales Almost Swallow Divers By Accident

Two divers were nearly swallowed by a couple of Humpback whales as the men were swimming at Souza Rock off the California coast.The whales, which were coming up out of the water to eat some fish,...

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Researchers Warn Of Catastrophic Methane Release From The Thawing Arctic

Thawing of just part of the Arctic due to global warming could cost the world up to $60 trillion as the warming seabed and melting ice release methane into the atmosphere, warming the Earth more."The...

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One Woman's Horrifying Shark Attack Captured On Rare Home Video

Heather Boswell was only a teenager when she lost her leg to a shark. That was in 1994. And it was all recorded on home video. Boswell's harrowing shark-survival story, and others who suffered a...

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Man Climbs Inside A Gutted Shark And Takes A Ridiculous Photo

An Australian fisherman crawled inside a gutted shark, shoved his hands through its gills, and pretended to stab the creature in between the eyes for a memorable photo.The image was sent to an...

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Discovery Channel Stands By Its Fake Documentary About A Giant Shark

Discovery Channel is standing by its fake documentary about an ancient giant shark, Megalodon. The two-hour special, called "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives," aired on Sunday night to kick off Shark...

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This Tornado-Proof House Can Disappear Underground

Hong Kong-based architecture firm 10 Design is attempting to prove that it is possible to build a tornado-proof home. It will be small, expensive, and made of concrete, but that's a small price to pay...

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70% Of People Still Believe Megalodon Exists After Watching Discovery...

Does Megalodon still exist? 71% of people think so after watching Discovery Channel's fake documentary about the massive prehistoric shark."YES! The evidence for Megalodon can't be ignored. This...

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A Great White Shark's Tooth Looks Like A Peanut Compared To Megalodon's

Megalodon was a humongous prehistoric shark that was 10 times bigger than a Tyrannosaurus rex and ate whales.The marine beast first terrorized our oceans around 17 million years ago, according to a...

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