Though this may be a disappointment to some, the biggest shark in the world does not eat humans.
Why are great blue heron feet so goofy looking?
Goofiness is in the eye of the beholder.
Who is better at walking in salt marsh mud: great blue herons or children's authors?
One of them sinks waist deep into the mud. The other one doesn't.
How do we know how old a rock is?
All you need are radioactive rock parts, a mass spectrometer and math skills, and then you too can figure out how many millions of years ago different things happened on our planet.
What do you call that thing that hit the Earth and created the Chicxulub Crater?
An asteroid? A meteorite? A Near-Earth object? A bolide? Anything, but late for dinner?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Sometimes. Yes, but only if it is also a comedian from the 1950s.
What was the worst day the dinosaurs ever had?
If you want to have a really bad day, do like the dinosaurs did and hang around after a six-mile wide object from outer space smashes into the Earth.
Are giant squid going to start their own YouTube channel?
Giant squid used to always be described as "elusive." Now there is so much footage of them out there, it's like they're cultivating their own online social media personas.
Are there pros and cons to getting hypothermia?
For the most part, getting hypothermia is not good, unless, of course, you want to make your body a suitable habitat for bioluminescent bacteria.
Did high school kids solve a 140-year old scientific mystery?
Yes, though despite this teaser photo, one of them was not me, and neither was the other.
Were there ever glow-in-the-dark Civil War soldiers?
Angels making Civil War soldiers glow? Unicorns on the Moon? It's science in the Nineteenth Century!
Will a Clark’s nutcracker ever have trouble finding the iPad?
Clark’s nutcrackers are the masters of finding things. Well, certain things that are even smaller than iPads. Namely, pine tree seeds. Each Clark's Nutcracker can bury up to 100,000 seeds a year and then find them all four months later.
Why do fiddler crabs dance like your grandparents did in 1977?
Find out why fiddler crabs are the tiny, arthropod John Travoltas of the salt marsh.
Did we not notice the world’s biggest volcano until like three years ago?
We just recently realized there is a volcano here on Earth that is about the same size as Poland.
How did the vampire squid get its name?
With the possible exception of Iman Shumpert, vampire squid have what is probably the coolest name in the entire universe. But is it possible that a vampire squid isn't a vampire or a squid?