Month: September 2026
California’s Beaches Are Swarming With Stingrays This Summer, and Thousands of People Are Getting Stung
Tropical stingray attacks have doubled at some beaches along California coasts, with lifeguards reporting thousands of new cases.
Scientists Identify Mushroom That Makes You Hallucinate ‘Tiny People’
Mycologists have identified a species of mushroom that induces hallucinations of dozens and sometimes hundreds of tiny people....
Scientists Don’t Actually Know How Long Fungi Can Live. The Reasons Are Kind of Weird
Fungi are really important to science, but aging them correctly is much more difficult than you'd think.
This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth
Scientists have long thought cynodonts, the ancestors of all modern mammals, laid eggs. For the first time, researchers...
High Schooler Plays Football With Venomous Snake in His Helmet for an Hour, Somehow Escapes Unscathed
The cottonmouth had likely been looking for a dark spot to digest its big meal.
Scientists Studied the Only 3 Dodo Skulls in Existence. Turns Out We Owe Them an Apology
“Calling them ‘stupid’ for being naive makes it sound like they deserved to go extinct, which is so...
Vets Traced a Lemur’s Fatal Herpes Infection Back to a Yoga Class
HSV-1 typically only causes cold sores in humans, but it can be very dangerous to some of our...
The Weirdest Theory Yet for Why Life on Earth Suddenly Exploded
It was all thanks to a lot of poop.
Pumas Are Helping Make Our Roads Safer, Study Finds
New research shows that pumas often steer deer populations away from human roads.
This Plant Has Been Hiding a Killer Secret. Darwin Called It 150 Years Ago
New research appears to confirm that some Saxifraga plants do indeed munch on insects for subsistence.
