It’s spring, and wild turkeys are on the loose in eastern Idaho – East Idaho News

Two wild turkey jakes harass Tom near the Snake River in Idaho, March 2026.

As I crossed the bridge across the South Fork of the Teton River on Tuesday morning, I saw 18 wild turkeys on the sand, soaking in the water. I tried to take pictures, but they all flew over the willows before I could take pictures. My plans quickly changed from swans and sandhill cranes to … Read more

In a cave near Arar, in the north of Saudi Arabia, they found the complete corpses of cheetahs burned naturally, and scientists are still amazed at how “impossible” it is to preserve a mammal in this way.

Researchers descending into a desert cave near Arar in northern Saudi Arabia, where naturally cremated cheetah carcasses were found.

A scientific team exploring a cave in the far north of Saudi Arabia is expected to find more bones. Instead, they came face to face with the dead but still body of a cheetah, lying on the floor of the cave. This discovery was so unusual that one foreign expert explained that it was something … Read more

The rugged rocks of Bennu are characterized by deep internal fissures

Study co-author and NASA X-ray scientist, Dr. Scott Eckley, seen loading a Bennu sample into an X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) machine that was used for the study. (Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz)

Asteroids don’t get the love they deserve. They do not find “cool stuff” because it is not a planet or a moon that can save life. It is “just a bunch of rocks”. But asteroids are abundant, as they are time capsules of the early solar system that have survived billions of years untouched by … Read more

Lion-sized armadillo, ancient turtles: Ice Age creatures found in Central Texas

Texas and the Edwards Plateau with suitable Late Pleistocene sites indicated. (CREDIT: Quaternary Research)

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils strewn in either direction of the flooded river, packed so tightly that archaeologist John Moretti could not move them without disturbing them. He was wearing a snorkel mask. “There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, like I’ve never seen in any other cave,” said Moretti, who … Read more

The birth of a Sperm whale recorded on video for the first time shows that it is a team effort, as outside females help the mother.

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A whale’s first season at sea reveals more than just birth. They show a level of care, cooperation, and communication that scientists are only beginning to understand. An international research group called Project CETI, also known as the Cetacean Translation Initiative, has reported one of the most detailed whale births ever recorded. The … Read more

An endangered palm cockatoo chick born in an artificial nest in the first world

A rope hoisting a large trunk up the side of a tree., blue sky with clouds above.

There is no greater test of a home’s transformation than whether its discerning residents choose to move, stay and raise a family. On Cape York Peninsula, at the northern tip of Queensland, new tenants are among Australia’s oldest and most endangered birds: the palm cockatoo. When the first chick was hatched in a hole dug … Read more

NASA unveils stunning new Radar view of Mount Rainier like never before

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The image was recently released from NASA provides a powerful new perspective on Mount Rainieruses advanced radar technology to reveal details invisible to the human eye. Image, attached to the base of NISAR workhighlights how scientists are preparing to probe Earth’s most powerful regions with unprecedented precision. This achievement, written by NASAit marks a major … Read more

War on Iran Is the Beginning of the End for Fossil Fuels – CleanTechnica

Iran war

Support CleanTechnica’s work with a Substack subscription or on Stripe. While scouring the world for cleantech headlines this morning, I came across an op-ed in the New York Times by David Wallace-Wells, who has written extensively on climate change and energy politics. He thinks the current war in Iran is a sign of something bigger … Read more

Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the point of lowering its winter extent as global temperatures crash.

Warm January surprises Nuuk residents

WASHINGTON (AP) – Crucial Arctic sea ice has shrunk to record its lowest point in the winter, the season when sea ice is growing, as global warming breaks records across the continents. WATCH: The ice in Greenland, Antarctica is melting faster than previously thought, research shows Arctic sea ice conditions, especially in summer, are important … Read more