Sometimes in big competitions, you have to take risks to win. But in this weekend’s Tour de Flanders, pro cyclist Filip Maciejuk took things a bit too far—and caused a 20-bike pileup right in the middle of the race. The collision, which was captured on video, ended up sidelining three cyclists (including Maciejuk). It may [...]
After years of seeing toothy T. rexes in popular media, a group of American paleontologists has finally stepped forward to set the record straight. In a study recently published in Science, the researchers compared Tyrannosaurus rex fossils with modern lizard anatomy and found they probably had lips. The study involved tons of painstaking measurements. The [...]
Hanging on fence, outside the bald eagle enclosure at Missouri’s World Bird Sanctuary, there’s a sign that’s worth a double-take. It reads: “If you see an eagle lying down in the back left corner under a perch, that’s Murphy! Murphy is not hurt, sick, or otherwise in distress. He has built a nest on the [...]
In a few years time, tourists might be visiting London not to see Big Ben but to see—beavers? Thanks to new rewilding projects intended to bring nature back to the Big Smoke, Greater London could soon be getting an influx of beaver families reacquainting themselves with ancestral grounds they haven’t roamed for 400 years. Last [...]
In a harrowing video captured in Washington last week, a skier narrowly a snowboarder’s life after the man fell head-first into a tree well. The snowboarder was buried upside-down in deep snow and slowly suffocating when the skier, Francis Zuber, arrived at the scene. At the time, Zuber was cashing in on a recent powder [...]
Yes, carrier pigeons are still a thing. And in one region of India, they remain an important form of backup communication in case of natural disaster. According to reporting from The Guardian, Odisha State is the only place left in the world with a functioning carrier pigeon service. The police there have about 150 pigeons, [...]
All around the world, small communities are struggling to stay afloat as their young people grow up and move away for the allure of big cities. The villages in northern India are no different. But now, some of them have come up with a unique solution to harness the power of nature to save their [...]
When Outdoors.com last spoke with Jill Ashlock and Amber Asay, the dynamic duo or terrible twosome—depending on who you ask—had not yet seen one episode of their Netflix reality competition show Outlast, a thrilling series about lone wolf survivalists dropped into the Alaskan frontier. Jill, a private detective from Kentucky, and Amber, a yoga instructor [...]
This April, we earthlings will get a rare opportunity to watch meteors streak across the sky during the Lyrid meteor shower, which comes from the debris of Comet Thatcher, officially named C/1861 G1 (Thatcher). While the Lyrid meteor shower can feature bursts of up to 100 meteors per hour, 10 to 15 meteors per hour [...]
Night 9 on Tika gets off to a somber start. Sarah is gone, following Carolyn’s decision to join forces with the tribe’s new member, Josh, at tribal council. Yam Yam is left scrambling—and confused. “I’m happy that I survived the moment, but I’m not happy that I didn’t know how it was going to go,” [...]
