In 2013, fishers off Southern California reeled in an enormous, 11-foot-long (3.3 meters) mako shark. At over 1,300 pounds (590 kilograms), the animal — dubbed “The Beast” — was one of the heaviest mako sharks ever recorded. In recent years, seals along the California coast have been found with wounds indicating they’d been attacked by […]
LISLE, Illinois (AP) — With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough. But some of them really are sex-crazed zombies on speed, hijacked by a super-sized fungus. West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson, his 9-year-old son Oliver, and graduate student Angie Macias are tracking […]
The iPhone keeps getting bigger, and that’s not necessarily a good thing in the eyes of iPhone fans. A recent tweet from @ZONEofTECH shows leaked photos of an alleged dummy model of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and it looks pretty credible as far as dummy models go. The leaked photos make the 16 Pro […]
The Pérez Art Museum Miami calls its new 10-story billboard an “iconic sculptural object.” Outraged neighbors call it digital blight, a supersized advertising canvas they want city commissioners to block before construction crews can finish building it by Biscayne Bay. “We are not Times Square, Las Vegas or Hong Kong harbor,” said James Torres, president […]