In 2020, Hungarian zoologists described the hybridization of a Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish.¹ Some sources have reported the scientists created a “franken-fish”—as indeed it looks quite bizarre.² Researchers, however, are calling it the sturddlefish—with sharp fins and an elongated nose.³

The evolutionary model of brain development predicted that the complexity of neural connectivity should have increased as brains became larger and the creatures more complex.

Brain researchers from San Diego State University have just reported digitally capturing the dense folds of a preserved human cerebellum using a high resolution MRI device.¹ Once thought to merely coordinate rote body movements, these brain folds contain newly revealed design features that challenge conventional concepts of where the human brain came from.

This summer, the Hubble Space Telescope took a brilliant new photograph of Saturn and its rings.¹ Saturn’s moons Mimas and Enceladus can also be seen in the photo. For a number of years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has been taking yearly photographs of Saturn at about the time that Earth is closest to the planet, about 840 million miles away.

In a bipartisan legislative achievement to promote better stewardship of American public lands, U.S. Senators and Representatives finalized their bill (H.R.