Kristin Hugo

The novelty of a cool beach carcass wears off when the stinkiness starts.

"The reality is we have to deal with this all the time," Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General, told reporters Tuesday.

Dead dolphins are often a sign of worse things to come.

People have died for these memes.

If your results said you could have a genetic disorder, you shouldn't panic just yet, new research suggested.

Science is a fickle muse. In celebration of National Poetry Month, here are some science poems for your reading pleasure.

Here are some generally random things that go on sale this Easter.

The disease this early man had still affects people today.

This fish's spike could be for self-defense, but we're not sure.

It was like an enormous, deadly watermelon.

This was when dinosaurs were just starting to evolve.

The water rushed at 100 miles per hour, leaving geological evidence of a great flood.

He tried to hide his tomb, and succeeded for almost 2,000 years.

Was Ata a victim of the nitrate mining in the town where her mother lived, and could others be affected as well?

Some say he's the Arabian Horse of the goat world. In some ways, he's more like a bulldog.

Eating crab doesn't just kill crabs.

Rot happens.

No worries—humanity will be long gone by the time the universe implodes.

Dozens of horses, including newborn foals, in various states of decay littered the property.

Old squid dies, little squids live.

Testing drugs might just get a whole lot easier.

This is the first report ever of such behavior.

A citizen scientist posted photos of this never-before-seen Aurora in a Facebook group.

Radio waves are fast, but not fast enough to reach us before a civilization goes extinct.

He claimed some murals he found had crumbled before he could photograph them.

Animals with abnormalities like this rarely survive for long.

Somehow, these hands ended up in a bag down by the river.

It's amazing that the animal survived long enough to heal over its face-stump, but it probably didn't live much longer.

This part-time professor spent nearly half her annual salary on her best friend.

Not all animals take the time to parent their young, especially if they have hundreds per clutch of eggs. But it looks like this invertebrate did.