Researchers exploring the South Atlantic Ocean identified dozens of new species, many with unusual shapes and adaptations for life in the deep sea.

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Nearly 167,000 rainbow trout had to be sent to a private landfill instead of local lakes earlier this week due to an outbreak of botulism in their rearing pond at a WDFW hatchery in Mason County.

FDA did not identify deficiencies in ByHeart’s production facilities that could explain the outbreak, but a powdered milk ingredient did test positive for C. botulinum. ByHeart is developing an action plan based on data generated from the investigations.

Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ichthyosaur, swam in a sea near present-day Peterborough, England. This huge animal, shaped like a dolphin, was a quick swimmer that chased prey such as ammonites and squid for sustenance.

However, on this day, luck was not on its side.

A pliosaur, an even more imposing reptile with 5-inch-long (13-centimeter-long), dagger-like teeth, attacked the ichthyosaur from underneath, biting with such force during the struggle that the tip of one of its teeth broke off in the middle of the ichthyosaur’s vertebra. The ichthyosaur’s body fell in pieces to the ocean floor, where the pliosaur finished its meal—a vivid scene inspired by the contents of a drawer in the Peabody’s Division of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Scientists have discovered a colossal hidden structure beneath Antarctica that could reshape our understanding of the continent’s past and present.

An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The findings are published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three kilometers thick in parts.

Together, the basins form a giant fan-shaped structure on a continental scale. The team have named it the East Antarctic Fan-shaped Basin Province.

A cheap crystal of four common elements produces clean hydrogen from water at temperatures hundreds of degrees lower than older methods need.

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