Sturgeons alive today from before Columbus sailed.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that sturgeons have been discovered to live much longer than previously thought, with some individual fish surviving more than 400 years: […]
Month: August 2026
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty as a northern elephant seal. They […]
Broken medieval skeleton first confirmed death by trebuchet
Science reports on a 14th-century skeleton found in a Scottish castle that looked like it had been hit by a bus … but, archaeologists determined, […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found on archive.org) that also bore […]
Prehistoric toad discovered in Los Angeles
Scienmag reports on a new discovery in one of the world’s most famous (and most urban) fossil sites — an Ice Age toad species found […]
Plains tribe’s gut genes are half indigenous, half industrialized.
Cell research into a North American Northern Plains tribe’s gut biota shows that the living things inside them (the bacteria, archaea, and other microbes responsible […]
Science Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on their own aren’t […]