Researchers have said that Totten Glacier, a behemoth with enough ice to raise sea levels by 11 feet (3.4 meters), appears to be melting. Now, they say 4 glaciers west of Totten, and a handful farther east, are also losing ice.

The elusive fossa, deepsea corals and a tropical frog which has developed resistance to a deadly fungus. Here are 3 stories from 2018 that remind us how awesome the animal world is.

We can’t feel Earth rotating because we’re all moving with it, at the same constant speed.

At Earth’s South Pole, high noon happens only once a year, on the December solstice. And meanwhile, the North Pole is getting its only midnight.

A new study suggests that a tsunami of cosmic energy from a supernova killed off large ocean animals – including the huge megalodon shark – 2.6 million years ago.