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Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two fluffy, snow-white wolves that the company claims represent their first successful effort in “de-extincion.” The wolves, with longer, thicker, lighter-colored coats than gray wolves and a larger stature and stronger jaw, also have a younger “sister,” Khaleesi, from a different genetic line. The brothers are around 80 pounds and still growing.

The public reaction was swift and varied. Fantasy fans bitterly joked that...

The blob went unnoticed at first. In the summer of 2013, a high-pressure ridge settled over a Texas-size area in the northern Pacific, pushing the sky down over the ocean like an invisible lid. The winds died down, and the water became weirdly calm. Without waves and wind to break up the surface and dissipate heat, warmth from the sun accumulated in the water, eventually raising the temperature by 5 degrees Fahrenheit — a huge spike for the ocean.

When scientists noticed this temperature anomaly in the satellite data, they had never seen anything like it.

If you're watching the Syfy channel, a fish with arms and legs just means it must be Friday night.  But this isn't the Syfy channel we're talking about today...

Though originally discovered in 2004, scientists have only recently begun examining 375-million-year-old fossils that they unearthed in northern Canada, and the results of their findings are quite stunning.  What they've determined is that the fossils belong to an ancient fish known as Tiktaalik roseae, which has challenged everything they thought they knew about evolution.  While it has long been believed that front and back limbs evolved only after animals moved from water to land, Tiktaalki roseae in fact had fully devolved appendanges, allowing it to possibly walk underwater.

As reported by Live Science, the bizarre 9-foot long sea creature had the gills, fins and scales of a fish, but the mobile neck, robust ribcage and even shoulders, elbows and wrists of a...

Press Release: PBS announced today its slate of Winter/Spring 2014 programs, including the long-awaited return of Masterpiece “Sherlock, Season 3” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the legendary British sleuth, on Sunday, January 19 at 10 p.m. Et. The highly acclaimed “Sherlock” follows Season 4 of “Downton Abbey,” which debuts with eight new episodes January 5 on Masterpiece. The two shows bolster Sunday night as a hallmark of British drama on PBS, whose ratings that night have grown 26 percent (8-11 pm, 2011-12 season: 9/19/2011-9/23/2012 to 2012-13 season: 9/24/2012-9/22/2013) season over season. The schedule also reinforces PBS’ move into 10 p.m. programming on several key nights.

PBS also announced a number of new programs, including the real-life adventure series Chasing Shackleton, the broadcast premieres of biopics “Salinger” on American Masters (about the reclusive Catcher in the Rye author) and Hawking, an intimate portrait of physicist Stephen Hawking’s extraordinary life and career, along with a roster of...