The past summer was the warmest ever in the Arctic, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card. In fact, the Arctic is now warming almost four times faster than the global average as a result of climate change primarily caused by humans burning fossil fuels. The warmer summer contributed to disasters in wide areas, NOAA, said, including flooding in Juneau, Alaska, and a record wildfire season in Canada. The work of 83 authors from 13 countries, the Report Card said that changes in the Arctic can predict what the rest of the world can expect…

If you’re worried about today’s great white shark, consider the pliosaur, a 40-foot long sea monster with 130 teeth that roamed the oceans of the world some 150 million years ago. British scientists just unearthed a fossil of its skull, which was 6’ 5” long. Here’s the story from the BBC: The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago. The 2m (6ft 5in)-long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its…