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Historic Shark Fin Ban Passes In Hawaii
Hawaii is standing up for sharks, and in a big way. Despite pressure from a vocal Asian community that insists on eating shark fin...
Shark Victims Unite to Save Their Attackers
Last month a group of unlikely lobbyists came to Washington, DC, survivors of shark attacks -- many with missing limbs and legs --...
Dolphins Save Surfer from Becoming Shark Bait
A surfer in California was under attack from a great white shark when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, pushing the shark away and...
Shark-Smuggling Bust Nets $1 Million for Habitat Protection
"Leopard sharks in San Francisco Bay will benefit from fines totaling nearly a million U.S. dollars — money resulting from the bust of a...
Fish Swim in Schools for Stealth–as 100 Fish Make Less Noise Than an Individual Swimming Alone
Watching a school of fish move can be hypnotic. The way they turn in near-perfect synchronicity is equal parts beauty and evolutionary brilliance.
While scientists...
Good News in History, April 7
93 years ago today, perhaps the greatest American whistleblower in history, Daniel Ellsberg was born. In March of last year, Ellsberg revealed to the...
Charlotte the Stingray, Single for 8 Years, Celebrated V-day with ‘Impossible’ Litter of Non-Fertilized Eggs
It's hard being alone on Valentine's Day—something that Charlotte the round stingray had experienced for eight years in a row.
But this year she decided...
Good News in History, January 26
100 years ago today, the first ever Olympic gold medal was won in a Winter sport. American speed skater Charles Jewtraw (right) won the...
Good News in History, January 20
2 years ago today, Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly around the world alone. Landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium, she...
Drone Captures Mesmerizing School of Rays that Appear Like Confetti in the Water
Daniel Lukic hasn't been piloting drones for that long, but his capturing of a school of cownose rays off the coast of Australia is...
2024 New Year’s Horoscope: A ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Pipe Dreams Comes True For Top Tradesmen at the First National Plumbing Championship
On a mission to elevate the profile of plumbers, the first-ever Plumbing National Championship attracted the crème de la crème of American tradespeople to...
National Geographic Unveils Top ‘Pictures of the Year’ Captured From Nat Geo Photographers in 2023
Each year, National Geographic photographers canvass the globe to uncover stories that offer a new understanding of our world; and every day, Nat Geo’s...
Good News in History, October 17
20 years ago, the pinnacle was secured in place on the Taipei 101 making it the highest building on Earth, surpassing the Petronas Twins...
Little Known Ancient Site in Ohio Crowned by UNESCO–for Incredible Alignment with Moon and Sun
In the rustbelt state of Ohio, famous for being the epicenter of so much great American music, a little-known collection of earthen mounds has...
Your New Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
First Baby Beaver in 160 Years Seen in S.F. Bay Area Exciting Scientists with Possibility of Recovery
A strange creature was spotted in a trail cam scampering across the Matadero Creek near Palo Alto south of San Francisco.
Biologists were scratching their...
Teen Finds Whale Skull from 34 Million Years Ago While Fossil Hunting in Alabama
Like many kids, Lindsey Stallworth from Alabama loves a day out to look for sharks' teeth. But on one such trip, it was a...
Digging A Wastewater Pipe Reveals Fossil Treasure Trove of Unknown Species 3-Million-Years-Old
Excavations had begun on two huge vertical shafts for a major upgrade of Auckland's raw sewage pipeline when the groundworks crew came across something...
New T-Rex Cousins Had Bulldog Snouts and Even Shorter Arms But Still Ruled in North Africa
A pair of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog-like snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco.
The...