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What Is Type 3 Diabetes?
While most of us are familiar with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, you may not have come across the term ‘type 3 diabetes’ before.
Study Shows The Life Of Pantolambda's Were Larger Than Most Mammals
Pantolambda bathmodon, a stocky, now-extinct mammal, lived 62 million years ago and reached roughly 92 lbs in adulthood, which was a much larger size than most mammals that came before.
Video credit: G. Funston
Music: "Sheep Rotation" by Jobii
Ice Age Horse Not What We Thought
The skeletal remains of a horse unearthed in Utah thought to date to the last ice age are actually much younger.
It’s A Snake Eat Snake World Out There
Hungry snake caught swallowing another, even bigger snake headfirst.
Many species of snakes are capable of swallowing prey much larger than themselves, such as deer, cows and even humans. However, this behavior does not typically include bigger snakes because when snakes do eat each other, which is common, it is normally the bigger snakes who eat the smaller ones.
Are Cockroaches Nearly Unkillable Superbugs?
These small, swift, prolific insects that live only around people are quickly evolving resistance to a range of pesticides at the same time and may soon be nearly impossible to kill with chemicals alone.
Bees Scream When Murder Hornet Cousins Attack
Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.
Where Do Eels Come From?
European eels make an incredibly grueling, mysterious migration to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.
Sheep Flow Like Water
A photographer created an astonishing time-lapse video from aerial footage of sheep as they traveled between pastures over seven months.
Scientists Put Shrimp On A Treadmill
Researchers measure activity of an exercising shrimp by time, speed and oxygen level. The shrimp treadmill was invented and built by Scholnick.
Earth's Evolution Over A Billion Years
Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the planet.
Antarctic Has an Ozone Hole the Size of North America
Scientists recorded a total-column ozone concentration of 102 Dobson units, the 8th-lowest level since 1986. Colder-than-average temperatures and strong winds in the stratosphere circling Antarctica contributed to its size.
Discovery Of Fossilized Human Footprints In An Ancient Lakebed
Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico.
Credit: National Park Service, USGS and Bournemouth University
Rescued Python Covered In Hundreds Of Ticks
This snake in an Australian suburb was carrying an astonishing number of parasitic hitchhikers.
Meteorite From A 4.5 Billion Year Old Asteroid Holds 2,600 Compounds
Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.
Python Swallows Alligator Whole
Pathologists in Florida who freed a 5-foot alligator corpse from the body of an 18-foot Burmese python.
German Shipwreck Is Leaking Chemicals Into The Sea
A German shipwreck that sank in the North Sea in 1942 is still polluting the seafloor around it, but there are signs of sea life adapting to the wreck.
Glass Octopus Captured in Rare Footage By Underwater Robot
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.
Why Are Cheetahs So Fast?
These giant felines are the world's fastest land animals. Here's why.
How Far Away Is Lightning?
Next time you're stuck in a thunderstorm, try this easy way to calculate how far away you are from lightning strikes.
Divers Discover 'HMS Urge'
Divers finally identify the wartime submarine “HMS Urge,” ending controversial claims of its secret WWII mission.