The inside of the can is coated with a very thin layer of plastic.

It would be much easier to mine asteroids if we could get them down to ground level first. I say we nudge a couple hundred large asteroids towards Earth and prepare to reap our rich mineral rewards.

Not quite. Large egg-laying animals that already dominate their environment end up cutting off their own freedom to evolve smaller again.

Having eaten fast food in quite a few different countries around the world, I believe that American fast food is also the best-tasting.

The freely-available paper has a billion (give or take a billion) pictures for your paleontological enjoyment!

Kaboom! is the "for kids" imprint of Boom! Studios.

Wow . . . io9 beat Meridith Gran's own site to the punch with this one.

"Roughly twenty five-hundred of the men in the study experienced irreversible sterility."

I thought the HUD overlay on the right eye was the leading magnetosensing theory for birds, not the "beak compass" . . ..

I can't stop laughing!

Have you ever read Godzilla fan fiction? It's amazing. So many overwrought speeches on the fragility of nations and society . . ..

Avatar 2 will feature Jake Sully taking a submarine to the deepest part of Pandora's ocean floor, the Dallenger Cheep. He will arrive just before V'gin Galatic CEO Rick Banson gets there, and manages to thwart Rick's evil plan to get on Nova instead of Jake.

The feathers are getting all the love in the press, but the circumstantial evidence for pack-hunting behavior in large theropods (two of the three specimens appear to have been buried as a pair) is just as cool, in my opinion.

A male African elephant averages about 5-6 tons, with one record-setting 10-ton individual on the books.

There are skin impressions associated with specimens of Tyrannosaurus that show no feathers, just scales. However, there's always the chance that those skin impressions don't actually belong to Tyrannosaurus and were misassigned.

Or it would sound like "AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaakkkghkkgggg..."

I don't think you were being a suspended ornament, as on a necklace, at all!

I was really wanting an elevation overlay, too, to watch the wind twisting around valleys and mountains.

It was only a week ago that I learned that "auroch" wasn't an animal that George R. R. Martin made up for his books.

No more images without comment? I suppose that's a fair request.