Elana Glowatz

Salt found deep below the Dead Sea floor shows how climate change can cause an extreme drought that could potentially hurt millions of people.

A new type of frog found in Ecuador is super colorful and doesn’t look like any other.

Otters are smarter than you think — they might have been using tools millions of years ago.

These tiny, newly discovered crabs can climb trees, so hopefully they won’t haunt your nightmares.

There’s a lot of garbage flying around the Earth, and that space debris is traveling 10 times faster than a bullet.

This cute little robot can squeeze into tight spaces and get over some rough terrain on Mars, so it might go as a helper to the rover.

If famine or a leopard doesn’t kill them first, it’s possible for a chimp to live as long as some humans.

A fossil of insects from the time of the dinosaurs shows what a dragonfly romance looked like in prehistoric times.

When a mother leopard and a huge snake face off, there can be only one winner.

Just when prehistoric life on Earth was starting to recover from the largest mass extinction event in the planet’s history, the Great Dying, it was hit with two more extinction events. All were related to climate change.

The universe is enormous and diverse, so there is potential for life on other planets near and far. Scientists look for these conditions when they search for aliens.

A new drug for heart patients can slash your bad cholesterol by 60 percent, potentially preventing a heart attack.

Society has advanced in many ways in the last 50 years, but people are still as blindly obedient and cruel as they have always been apparently, results from an electrocution experiment show.

This catfish has no eyes — it “sees” in the dark water by feeling around with its long whiskers.

Without mummification you wouldn’t be able to look upon these ancient dead people, so hang out with a mummy and learn some cool stuff about death at the museum.

Sharks might have more friends than you do, based on what scientists saw when they captured a bunch.

This baby penguin will not shut up until its mom gives it some fish, for crying out loud.

A fossil of an ancient cranium might be able to tell scientists more about how Neanderthals and later modern humans evolved.

The hagfish is seriously ugly and terrifying, and here’s a video of it.

Many countries can provide adequate enough health care for their residents, but some nations do a much better job at preventing and treating disease.

Sharks might avoid humans who scuba dive in their habitats, but scientists say diving doesn’t change shark behavior in the long-term.

These fish are jumping onto land just like the fish that eventually evolved into human beings millions of years ago.

The debate is finally over — scientists say these two confusing, extinct reptile species, which lived during the time of the dinosaurs, are actually the same marine animal.

Scientists have discovered how to predict your actions and even change them, thanks to the brain chemical dopamine. This "mind-control drug" could be used to treat OCD and addiction.

This video explains how hanging upside down is dangerous business — it can cut off your breathing, increase pressure in your eyes or send you into heart failure.

A faulty protein that has been linked to autism spectrum disorders has now been shown to affect the body’s ability to fight off cancer.

The symptoms of ADHD may make some business tasks more difficult, but a study shows the disorder helps entrepreneurs find success.

Are you a queen bee? You may have inherited those traits. Looking at how a queen wasp’s behavior influences her offspring could tell us more about the link between genetics and personality.

One of Africa’s last remaining great tusker elephants was killed by poachers using a poisoned arrow, further endangering a small group of wise elephants that are important to their herds.