Midwest flamingos and 'hurricane toads': Wildlife's strange storm stories

If you're trying to stand out on LinkedIn, it might seem like posting about your own achievements is a smart approach. But new research from The University of Texas at Arlington suggests a different strategy: highlight others.

As the Bayeux Tapestry comes to London, the year 1066 and the Norman Conquest are in the spotlight. The tapestry—an embroidered cloth nearly 70 meters long, created soon after the events it depicts—tells the story of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and William of Normandy's triumphant defeat of Harold Godwinson, King of England.

The most destructive wildfire season on record in Europe was in 2025, with more than 1 million hectares burned and tens of thousands of people displaced by fires across the continent.

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's two largest whale species in the southeastern Atlantic. The findings, published in the African Journal of Marine Science, compile more than 60 years of confirmed sightings and strandings from Namibia and South Africa's west coast. Although overall numbers remain low, sightings of both species have increased markedly in recent years—with 95% of observations recorded since 201