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Video captured the power of the ferocious storm off the Sicilian coast responsible for sinking the Bayesian, a U.K.-flagged superyacht on Monday and claiming the lives of at least five people onboard.

Video shows moment Bayesian superyacht sinks during ferocious storm off Sicilian coast

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Corpus Christi, TX

The Texas Gulf Coast is bristling this week at the sight of bearded fireworms, prickly creatures capable of delivering a painful sting to its victims.

Bearded creature washing up on Texas beach is that of 'worst nightmares'

Saint Augustine, FL

Bill Hoge, an owner and operator of a charter company in St. Augustine, said he and his wife were boating over the weekend on the San Sebastian River when their 9-year-old Yorkie named Maddie fell overboard. Once they found the dog, it was severely injured and rushed her to an animal care facility.

Yorkie survives near-fatal shark attack along Florida coast

The Independent

 A volcano in southwestern Iceland has erupted for the sixth time since December, spewing bright orange lava plumes high into the air.The eruption began at 9.26pm local time on the Reykjanes peninsula, near the abandoned town of Grindavik, following a series of earthquakes, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office. The total length of the fissure was about 3.9km and extended by 1.5 km in about 40 minutes, it added.Residents of the capital Reykjavic posted on social media that they could see the plumes of lava rising from about 50km away.Live streams from the volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula showed...

Iceland volcano erupts again with huge plumes of lava visible from Reykjavik

IFLScience

Many places across the world have been named "gates of hell" for various reasons. Here are a few well-known examples.

Just How Many “Gates To Hell” Are There On Earth?

In what can only be described as a herculean accomplishment, a team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth’s Mantle. This layer, hidden beneath the crust, forms the largest chunk of our planet. The insights gained from this...

Record-breaking hole drilled into the Earth’s mantle is a scientific goldmine

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Strange structures up to 1,300 feet (around 400 metres) long have been discovered deep beneath the ice in Antarctica.The never-before-seen shapes were uncovered when a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dove 10 miles (17 kilometres) below the Dotson Ice Shelf, in the west of the continent, and travelled more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometres) along the underside of the ice, Live Science reports.The Dotson Ice Shelf is a 30-mile-wide (50 kilometre) chunk of floating ice which is seven times the size of New York City.It is part of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which is home to glaciers that are breaking...

Stunning giant structures found lurking beneath Antarctic ice

For the past several decades, the scientific community has been deeply invested in figuring out where the asteroid came from that caused the massive extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. This significant event transformed Earth’s biodiversity and ignited a plethora of theories and discussions among researchers.

Massive asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and we finally know where it came from

The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new study provides the first direct evidence that the center—not just the edges—of Greenland's ice sheet melted away in the recent geological past and the now-ice-covered island was then home to a green, tundra landscape. A team of...

Greenland fossil discovery stuns scientists and confirms that center of ice sheet melted in recent past

LiveScience

A 2018 astronaut photo shows Nicaragua's active Momotombo volcano spitting out a cloud of toxic gas and steam just a few years after its latest eruption.

Earth from space: 'Smoking terror' volcano that destroyed city 400 years ago burps toxic cloud

Deep in Siberia, the Batagaika crater, often dubbed the “Gateway to Hell,” is an astonishing and rapidly expanding phenomenon. This enormous permafrost crater, the largest of its kind in the world, spans nearly a kilometer in length and reaches depths of up to 100 meters. Despite being commonly referred to as a crater, Batagaika is a thermokarst depression, or mega slump, that formed in the 1960s when deforestation disrupted the thermal balance of the permafrost. As the ground thawed, it released significant amounts of methane gas, contributing to the subsidence of the Earth and creating this immense depression. The ongoing thawing process has exacerbated the situation, releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which in turn accelerates the melting of permafrost—a troubling feedback loop.

Giant Permafrost Crater “Gateway to Hell” Is Rapidly Expanding in Siberia

Interesting Engineering

An unmanned submarine conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of the underside of an Antarctic glacier.

Drone submarine finds mysterious 1,300-ft-long structures under Antarctic ice

New Jersey State

Three weak earthquakes rattled portions of New Jersey and northern New York State early Tuesday according to USGS. While they struck within 16 minutes of each other, they were too weak to create any damage or injuries. The first of the three quakes struck at 4:40 am near Califon, New...

Three Earthquakes Rattle New Jersey and New York Within 16 Minutes

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

Advnture

The shocking footage is an important reminder to always obey trail closures

Watch as unpermitted hikers scramble for their lives when volcano unexpectedly erupts

One common approach is to calculate the centroid or center of mass of all land surfaces on Earth. In 1973, physicist Andrew J. Woods used a digital global map to pinpoint this center at 39°00′N 34°00′E, near the district of Kırşehir in modern-day Turkey.

Where on Earth is the Center of the Earth?

Tanzania's outlandish Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, the only volcano on Earth that is currently erupting carbonatite lava, has been sinking at a rate of 1.4 inches per year for the past decade.

Volcano in Tanzania with weirdest, runniest magma on Earth is sinking into the ground

Giant panda Ying Ying gave birth on Thursday to two cubs, one male and one female, the first giant panda twins to be born in Hong Kong.

World's oldest first-time panda mom gives birth to twins

Washington, DC

Insects called “oak leaf itch mites" may be to blame for a spread of red bug bites this summer – and cicadas are serving as unwitting accomplices.

Mysterious bug bites could be from mites feeding on cicada eggs

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

Salar de Uyuni: The world's largest salt desert and lithium reservoir surrounded by volcanoes

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Watch: Iceland volcano suddenly erupts again, lighting up night sky

The Icelandic Meteorological Office is monitoring the latest eruption around the Sundhnúkur volcano. Since around the start of the year, there have been at least six...

Watch: Iceland volcano suddenly erupts again, lighting up night sky

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