Italian divers discovered the corpse of a large finback whale near Naples. Authorities say it could be one of the largest whales ever found in the Mediterranean. Source: https://www.livescience.com/finback-whale-largest-ever-mediterranean.html
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Remembering Laika: ‘Space Dogs’ Documentary Explores Moscow Through a Stray’s Eyes
Space.com reports:
Laika, a stray dog scooped off the streets of Moscow, launched on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957, just a month after Sputnik 1’s liftoff opened the space age. The 11-lb. (5 kilograms) mixed-breed quickly died of overheating and circled Earth as a corpse until April 1958, when Sputnik 2 fell back into the atmosphere and burned…
Fossilized ‘ocean lizard’ found inside corpse of ancient sea monster
An ichthyosaur devoured a thalattosaur about 240 million years ago. Source: https://www.livescience.com/triassic-sea-monster-ate-huge-reptile.html
A never-before-seen ‘partial supernova’ sent this star’s corpse skidding across the galaxy
The runaway star is traveling at nearly 600,000 mph and lost most of its mass to a mysterious explosion. Source: https://www.livescience.com/runaway-white-dwarf-partial-supernova.html
Sexy, stinky corpse plant blooms to life on live stream (watch here)
Streaming video from NYC offers a stink-free view of the notoriously malodorous corpse plant in bloom. Source: https://www.livescience.com/corpse-flower-blooms-nyc.html
The bodies of COVID-19 victims may be contagious, coroner’s case reveals
A coroner in Thailand caught COVID-19 from a corpse, suggesting that bodies of those with the coronavirus may be contagious. Source: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-corpses-contagious.html
Procyon is the Little Dog Star
The Dog Star, Sirius, is easy to spot because it’s the sky’s brightest star. Procyon – the other Dog Star – is near its brighter brother on the sky’s dome. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/procyon-harbringer-of-the-dog-star…
Ötzi the Iceman’s final days
Scientists have identified ancient mosses in, on and around the 5,300-year-old glacier mummy that add to the story of the final 48 hours before his murder. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/otzi-the-iceman-mummy-ancient-mosses…
New Bone-Eating Life Form Discovered in Bizarre Alligator-Corpse Study
Scientists sank three alligator corpses into the Gulf of Mexico to see whether bottom-dwelling sea creatures could eat them. They did — handily. Source: https://www.livescience.com/alligator-corpses-devoured-in-sea.html
The World’s Largest Corpse Flower Is Blooming Right Now (and It Stinks)
Conservationists in Indonesia discovered the largest-ever specimen of Rafflesia tuan-mudae, a parasitic plant known as the ‘corpse flower’ Source: https://www.livescience.com/largest-corpse-flower-bloom-discovered.html