Science

The male northern quoll can walk more than 6 miles in a single night in the search of a mate, leading to exhaustion that can prove fatal, according to a new study.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, is currently reviewing the funding and implementation of a long-awaited ban on the trafficking of shark fins through U.S. ports, a move that could disrupt their broader global trade.

Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the comet in the predawn hours as it approaches the planet.

It’s a decision the agency says will preserve the thriving ecosystem and safeguard Alaska’s sockeye salmon fishery, which produces about half of the world’s harvest of the species.

Colossal Biosciences, which announced its ambitious plan to revive the woolly mammoth two years ago, said Tuesday it wants to bring back the dodo bird, too.

In the seaside city of Laguna, scientists have used drones, underwater sound recordings and other tools to document how local people and dolphins coordinate actions and benefit from each other’s labor.

For years, toxic ash and noxious chemicals have enveloped Salinas, and the EPA recently announced it had found extremely high concentrations of a carcinogenic gas.

The find “offers new insights into the conditions of nest preservation and reproductive strategies of titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs,” said Harsha Dhiman, the study’s lead author.

Even if the space rock came a lot closer, scientists said, most of it would burn up in the atmosphere, with some of the bigger pieces possibly falling as meteorites.

In recent years, researchers have noticed that fewer tornadoes were touching down in the Great Plains and that more were hitting the Southeast.

Starship is a nearly 400-foot-tall rocket designed to carry cargo and people beyond Earth.