Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were livestreaming an unmanned expedition along the ocean floor when they spied the strange golden object on some rocks. NOAAThe mysterious “golden egg” discovered off the Alaskan coast. Earth’s oceans are full of mysteries, but few are as unsettling as a newly discovered “golden egg” found on the seafloor off the coast of Alaska. A photo of the mysterious shiny object was posted to X (formerly Twitter) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and it has caused quite a stir among researchers and X users alike.

The fossils were discovered in an area of Western Australia that is well known for its preservation of fossilized organisms. UW-MadisonA photo of the rock samples analyzed by UW-Madison researchers. A new study, published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in conjunction with UCLA, claims that researchers have found what appear to be the oldest fossils ever recovered. Researchers at the two universities have been studying a piece of rock found in Western Australia, and have confirmed that the fossils inside date back almost 3.

Fight! Get ready for the mud-slinging: the 2016 presidential hopefuls have taken out their magnifying glass and tweezers, looking for any opportunity to pick away at their opponents’ policy mistakes and, arguably more important, character. There’s a euphemism for it: “opposition research”. Ted Cruz has already moved in on the attack against Secretary Clinton, starting a hashtag trend on Twitter called #StopHillary. It’s still early in the race, and we can be sure that Ms.

On July 9, 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission set off a 1.4-megaton thermonuclear warhead in outer space, 240 miles above the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.Public DomainA view of the nuclear explosion in space caused by Starfish Prime from Honolulu, Hawaii, 900 miles away. On a summer night in 1962, the sky above the Pacific Ocean suddenly burst into an array of stunning colors visible from Hawaii to New Zealand. But the gorgeous show was no quirk of nature.

The long-held belief that this apex predator's long legs helped it run faster might be prehistoric. Instead of speed, Tyrannosaurus rex was made for long, ambling periods of stalking prey.Wikimedia CommonsThe T. rex has commonly been depicted as a speedy predator chasing its prey. New research shows that wasn’t the case. No species has been depicted more terrifyingly than the Tyrannosaurus rex, the long-legged apex predator often seen in movies like Jurassic Park chasing down its prey with deadly speed.