The blobs first appeared in the spring of 2013. They were roundly amorphous, like cookie dough plopped onto a baking sheet. Their faces, a rainbow of emotions, had mouths that turned up and down in ...

“Mutant egg yolks. Clippy’s deformed, inbred cousins. Lumpy, misshapen visages.” There were specific reasons Google redesigned its original emoji, of course. It wasn’t just that they were ugly; they ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Blobs of worms flow like a fluid, plop like a solid and fascinate scientists. A worm by itself is as solid as any other living animal. But a mass of aquatic California blackworms tangled ...

From seabirds to sea lions, wildlife along the California coast are now facing “the Blob,” a massive marine heat wave that’s become a recurring anomaly since the early 2010s. The oceanic phenomenon ...

There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...

Science fiction monsters are rarely elegant. While we all love menacing aliens in films like Independence Day or Alien, the vast majority of monsters, no matter how iconic, all end up feeling sort of ...