On the spectrum of animals that are and are not easy to eat get into our mouths, fish have swum towards the top of the rankings. Famously, they've spent the last several thousand years never catching on to the fact that worms on hooks make them disappear forever. But which fish is slowest?
Read MoreWhile the NOAA notes that "whale sharks are commonly docile and approachable," it asks you to "please keep your distance," which sounds a bit like a mixed message. If you don't like sharks or ambiguity, there are still plenty of big fish that aren't sharks in the sea. What's the biggest?
Read MoreGenerally, fish sell for pennies on the dollar, as evidenced by the accepted method of transport -- plastic bag. Maybe it's because most humans think they don't feel pain, but our poor piscine friends don't often get the royal treatment. But some are incredibly expensive.
Read MoreThe story of Lewis and Clark's dog is a timeless one. The fact that they named their dog "Seaman" has aged less gracefully. But did he survive?
Read MoreThis is the tragic and heartwarming story of Peaches, the therapy goat, and Bunter, the depressed cow.
Read MorePrior to the 1990s, "Atherton was a sleepy town," according to Coldwell Banker agent Pierre Buljan. Now, it's the richest neighborhood in America.
Read MoreScientists at Stanford University's Lentink Lab have developed a so-called 'PigeonBot,' the unmanned aerial vehicle modeled after nature's favorite cowboy hat-wearing avians.
Read MoreHold on, wait a second. Building cities and inventing currencies named after himself? Is ... is Akon planning to start a new career as a supervillain?
Read MoreTheologians have been wrestling with this biblical mystery for millennia: why did Old Testament folks live so gosh dang long while we, with all of our scientific advances, struggle to hit the single century mark?
Read MoreHey, wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to find out just which particular age is the most miserable? Fortunately, Fox 4 News suggests that a recent study might have discovered the answer to this eternal dilemma.
Read MoreImagine just going about your lazy Sunday morning when suddenly, your phone receives a message. Not just any message, mind you -- a cell phone alert from your country's officials, warning about an "incident" at a nearby nuclear plant. Well, that just happened in Canada.
Read MoreThe Federal Witness Protection Program has been a controversial entity, but it's also protected the lives of numerous individuals. So if you want to know more about this secret organization (without ticking off a mob boss), read on for the truth about the US Witness Protection Program.
Read More"In the beginning," the Bible says, "God created the heavens and the Earth." Six days later, we got people, and things mostly got worse. But hold your prehistoric horse ancestors. What about dinosaurs? Where do they fit into the grand design?
Read MoreVantablack --an artificial material blacker than black could ever be, and one of the unsung greatest inventions of the past decade. It reflects so little light that if you wore a Vantablack dress, it would be like your arms and legs were sticking out of a Lovecraftian abyss. How is this possible?
Read MoreFinalizing the biblical canon took a long time, and quite a few books were left on the cutting room floor. Why? Well, a lot of those books were absolutely bonkers. From talking animals to a murderous Jesus, here are the craziest stories that didn’t make it into the Bible.
Read MoreA study published by Scientific Reports now claims that tardigrades, while survivalist little-engines-that-could in most situations, have a real glass jaw when it comes to taking a warm shower.
Read MoreIn 1969, a meteorite came roaring over the town of Murchison, Australia.Riding atop it was ancient stardust. In a 2020 study, scientists dated one of these grains as being around seven billion years old -- making it the most ancient solid material on the planet.
Read MoreConsider, for a moment, the Gideon Bible. It's the closest you'll get to something you can find in every hotel room without the use of a blacklight. Here is its story.
Read MoreAccording to a study published in the February 2020 edition of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2019 was a big year for warming up the oceans, with their temperatures reaching record highs.
Read MoreIn an announcement presumably presided over by a mysterious husky whose sudden appearance nobody could properly explain, scientists are wrestling with the presence of mysterious, physics-defying particles that have been discovered busting up out of the ice in Antarctica.
Read MoreWouldn't it be awesome if they could make space food practically from scratch using a few cells as ingredients? Well, in 2019, a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS provided the first semblance of an answer to that question by making 'space beef.'
Read MoreChristopher Columbus, as you might have heard, is sort of a big deal in most history books because of the whole "discovered North America thing" -- even if his discovery of the "new" continent was one of those famous events that never actually happened. But you know what did? He saw mermaids.
Read MoreThis Pennsylvania town was once an ordinary slice of Americana, but these days, the ghostly ruins of the so-called 'real Silent Hill' has no zip code, no stores, and almost no people. Here is the story of Centralia, the town that sits atop an underground inferno that could rage for centuries.
Read MoreIf our Solar System's planets were people on a bus, Saturn would be the guy in a purple cape, smelling of patchouli and smoking a corn husk pipe. With its distinctive rings, Saturn is the eccentric bus-guy of our cosmic neighborhood. Sadly, Saturn is slowly losing its ring-bedazzled mojo. But why?
Read MoreOne of the pinnacles of space science came in December 26, 2019, when NASA astronaut Christina Koch reported on Twitter that the ISS team had successfully baked cookies in space.
Read MoreOn Super Bowl Sunday, jubilant humans cheer like chimps and shovel ungodly quantities of calorie-rich deliciousness into their banana holes while watching two NFL teams try to eat each other alive on the gridiron. Here's how much food is consumed.
Read MoreThe idea that viewers would copy horror movies is terrifying. People have copied what they see on screen since the beginning of cinema, but when a criminal brings a horror movie to life, it makes the world just a little scarier. These are horror movie scenarios that became a disturbing reality.
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