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Antarctica recently yielded an extinct species of penguins that would have towered above the vast majority of humans. Shudder.

Once focused on revealing the actual world of sharks, Discovery Channel's hyped programming has become dumb, weird and fake.

This SharkCam provides up close and personal footage of the ocean’s top predator at work.

Thought to be confined to two super-secure facilities, scientists are flummoxed by the discovery of rogue vials containing the deadly virus.

Long-maligned simply as gassy afterthoughts, Kepler data shows giant planets can have life-hospitable conditions.

Putnisite has no known mineral relatives, making it a bizarre (but beautiful!) specimen of nature’s laboratory—according to Aussie scientists, there is nothing quite like it on earth.

Here’s your science-y moment for the day: The earth was vastly different during this creature’s life, more than 300 million years before mammals popped up on the scene.