Science

2.8-million-year-old jawbone found in Ethiopia came from our ancestors. The earliest evidence of our human genus – Homo – was found in Ethiopia by a team of Arizona State University scientists and students during field research in 2013. Read More »

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said today he had found one of Japan’s biggest and most famous battleships on a Philippine seabed, some 70 years after American forces sank it during World War II. The apparent discovery of the wreckage of the Musashi, one of the largest battleships in history, comes as the world marks the 70th anniversary of the war’s ... Read More »

Paris – More than 200 skeletons have been discovered in a medieval mass grave beneath a supermarket in the middle of the French capital, with archeologists unsure of how they died or why the bodies were placed there. Read More »

A nearly 10-foot great white shark was caught in the surf at Panama City Beach, Fla. Read More »

UBC researchers are out with a new study that says the seagull population in the Strait of Georgia has fallen by 50% compared to the 1980′s. Researchers collected 100 years of data on population numbers of Glaucous-winged Gulls, the most common seagull species found in the Lower Mainland, Victoria, Nanaimo and elsewhere in the region. They found that the population ... Read More »

US scientists following endangered orcas are glowing after their latest discovery Wednesday. They spotted a new orca born to the ‘L’ pod, which is a family of endangered southern resident killer whales. Read More »

Washington State’s Fish and Wildlife Department is warning people along the coast that a great white shark is swimming in its waters after a dead half eaten seal was found on the beach. Read More »

A rogue eagle owl is causing terror in a Dutch town after launching a series of swooping attacks which have left many locals requiring hospital treatment. The so-called “terror owl” has become a media sensation after attacking people in recent weeks in and around Purmerend, 12 miles north of Amsterdam. The hardest hit area in town is the Prinsenstichting assisted-living ... Read More »

A giant black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns was found inside a quasar, a bright astronomical body like the one illustrated here with a black hole at its center. A quasar is an extremely bright cloud of material that is in the process of being sucked into a black hole. As the material speeds towards the black ... Read More »

Cat, 29, is world’s oldest? A woman in Sweden is claiming that her cat, Missan, is the oldest living cat in the world at 29 years old. Missan, was adopted by her owner, Åsa Wickberg, in 1985 when she found the kitten. Read More »

280 Pound Catfish? Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari, an expert at catching big wels catfish, landed himself an enormous 280-pounder in the Po Delta, a part of the Po River, the longest river in Italy at more than 400 miles. Read More »