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Empty-Nester Loons Adopt a Mallard Chick in Northern Wisconsin
For two months the duckling has learned to eat fish, dive and just hang out on on mom and dad’s backs
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A Statue in the U.K. Had to Be Moved Because It Was Too Popular
Visitors flocked to see ‘Seated Figure’ by the artist Sean Henry—and damaged the surrounding landscape of the North York Moors in the process
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From Baked Dormouse to Carbonized Bread, 300 Artifacts Show What Romans Ate
The show features frescoes, preserved fruit, cooking utensils and vessels recovered from Pompeii
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The sea pangolin only lives by a few hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean, which are being targeted by deep-sea miners
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Cowboy Boots Purchased in the U.S. Played Part in Pangolins’ Decline
Before 2000, imported pangolin skins were widely used in the production of exotic leather accessories
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals Will Be Made of Recycled Materials
The design for the medals, created by Junichi Kawanishi, were unveiled this week
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Hebrew Inscription Emerges From Ruins of the Great Synagogue of Vilna
Other finds from a recent excavation include a prayer book and 200 gold coins
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Couture Covering 96 Years of Fashion Is Coming to the Met’s Costume Institute
A little-known couture collector has gifted the museum 165 items drawn from her collection of approximately 15,000 pieces
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Heading to the Beach? Beware the Fecal Bacteria
A new report found that more than 2,600 sites in the U.S. and Puerto Rico were “potentially unsafe” for at least one day in 2018
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Laugh Tracks Make Bad Jokes Funnier, According to Science
The bursts of audience laughter hated by TV critics do induce laughter, meaning the sit-com giggles are here to stay
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Why Archaeologists and Volcanologists Are Clashing Over Excavations at Pompeii
Volcanologist Roberto Scandone argues that enthusiasm for archaeology has yielded an “act of vandalism to volcanology”
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Investigation Identifies Nazi-Looted Art Later Ransacked From Hitler’s Headquarters
Near the end of WWII, Munich civilians plundered food, liquor, furnishings and some 700 works of art, most of which wer stolen property, from the Führerbau
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Why Florida Crocs Are Thriving Outside a Nuclear Power Plant
But is the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station the reptilian utopia that it seems?
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Unhatched Bird Embryos Communicate With Siblings by Vibrating Their Shells
Baby seabirds exposed to nestmates’ warnings exhibit behavioral and physiological adaptations designed to help avoid predators
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It Took Two Years for Global Experts to ID This Little Shard of Roman Glass
The rare blue-green glass was unearthed at the Chedworth Roman Villa in the U.K.
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Plaque Memorializes First Icelandic Glacier Lost to Climate Change
In 2014, the Okjökull was declared dead after dwindling from over 5 square miles to a mound of “dead ice”
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Judy Chicago Retrospective to Look Beyond ‘The Dinner Party’
The largest exhibition of Chicago’s work to date at the de Young Museum in San Francisco will highlight the diversity of the artist’s oeuvre
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London Signs Up as First ‘National Park City’
The city has commited to upping its greenspace to 50 percent and making the urban landscape healthier, greener and more beautiful by 2050
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This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale
The 5.5-inch-long Mollisquama mississippiensis—one of only two pocket shark specimens known to science—also glows in the dark
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The World’s Northernmost Permanent Settlement Set a Record High Temperature
The military installation of Alert on Ellesmere Island, 600 miles from the North Pole, hit 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit last week
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