On Feb. 2, 2023, Guinness World Records publicly crowned Bobi the oldest dog ever at the age of 30 years and 267 days. Announcing his death in October, the premier keeper of world records put Bobi’s final tally at 31 years and 165 days. On Thursday, just over a year later, Guinness posthumously stripped Bobi … Read more
In a move that marks the end of an era, New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced the impending closure of its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024. For over three decades, the archive has been a key resource for users of the IBM OS/2 operating system and its successors, which once competed fiercely … Read more
A purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo named Bobi was crowned as the world’s oldest dog by the Guinness Book of World Records in October, 2023, when he passed away at the age of 31 years and 165 days. Prior to Bobi’s death, the oldest dog on record was an Australian hound named Bluey, who died at … Read more
The story of life on Earth can’t be told without photosynthesis, the process by which plants (and some other lifeforms) convert sunlight into chemical energy. Now, a team of researchers has announced the discovery of fossilized photosynthetic structures—the oldest yet known—from a staggering 1.75 billion years ago. What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft … Read more
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“It is true that I am considered an expert on dog coat color,” Sheila Schmutz, an emeritus professor of animal and poultry science at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, told me. “At least in terms of genetics.” I sent Schmutz, who has published multiple papers about the coats of dogs and cattle, a selection … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIO DE JANEIRO — In the mid-1800s, the most prolific slaver in Brazil was a man named José Bernardino de Sá. The transatlantic slave trade was banned in Brazil and abroad, but Bernardino nonetheless financed the trafficking of nearly 20,000 Africans to Brazil — and became one … Read more
New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World. The footprints were discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in White Sands … Read more
Fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico are every bit as old as the 23,000 years-and-change they were dated at in 2021, according to new analysis published in Science. Totally Killer Exclusive Clip Back in 2021, researchers published work in which they used radiocarbon dating of crushed seeds of Ruppia cirrhosa, … Read more