New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member(bbc.com)

38 points by drgo 1 month ago | 7 comments

Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna rediscovered in Indonesia(cbc.ca)

177 points by curmudgeon22 3 years ago | 49 comments

Earliest forest discovered, scientists say(bbc.co.uk)

38 points by The-Old-Hacker 2 years ago | 6 comments

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed(bbc.com)

69 points by peutetre 1 year ago | 12 comments

Oceans hit highest temperature on record(bbc.com)

619 points by tcp_handshaker 2 months ago | 482 comments

BBC News article reporting that the world's oceans have reached their highest temperature on record as El Niño conditions strengthen.

The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved(bbc.com)

43 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 8 comments

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers(bbc.com)

416 points by neversaydie 6 months ago | 253 comments

BBC News article reporting researchers' findings that a chimpanzee community in Uganda has split and been locked in a years-long violent 'civil war'.

Preliminary report into Air India crash released(bbc.co.uk)

385 points by cjr 1 year ago | 781 comments

BBC News live coverage of the preliminary investigation report into the Air India crash that killed 260, which says fuel switches were cut off before the crash.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting(birdshistory.com)

20 points by Heidi_70 22 days ago | 7 comments

A Birds History article on how long it takes to declare a bird species extinct, noting a median wait of 36 years after the last confirmed sighting.

NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission(cnn.com)

385 points by voxleone 1 year ago | 1020 comments

CNN article reporting that NASA's acting chief Sean Duffy suggested SpaceX could lose its moon lander contract, saying NASA won't wait for one company.

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

610 points by bluedel 1 year ago | 553 comments

A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.