Seriously, guys. This is embarrassing.

A New Jersey man was out walking his dogs on the beach recently when he came across something peculiar. It was a message in a bottle, with a note explaining that it had been sent adrift into the Atlantic Ocean by a man named Stuart, possibly from England.

Four hundred and eighty million years ago, a slug-like ancestor of modern snails and clams had hundreds of tiny teeth, a body covered in prickly spines and a built-in helmet. Called Calvapilosa, it's one of the earliest — and weirdest — molluscs ever discovered.

While most people woke up dreaming of Tom Brady's epic Super Bowl comeback, we woke up pondering what the heck we saw in the first footage from Stranger Things' second season.

Diagnosing disease often requires analysing and detecting single cells with lab tests that cost hundreds of dollars each. Hospitals in a poor country stricken with a disease epidemic like HIV or malaria simply might not have the funds to run all of those tests. Scientists are looking for a cheaper option.

Carnivorous plants haven't have the best media representation. The 1986 cult classic Little Shop of Horrors depicted these hungry little darlings as bloodthirsty beasts, which isn't entirely inaccurate — depending on where they're located, carnivorous plants eat everything from flies to frogs.

"The majority" of Stan's line-up of shows will be available to download and watch offline as of March, the streaming service announced today.

Video: In Doctor Strange, Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) spends a lot of the movie trying to get everything he needs to summon the evil Dormammu from the Dark Dimension. In this cut scene, he and his followers attempt the ritual. Except for one very stupid one.

The agricultural industry has long been considered an enemy of humanity when it comes to recklessly pumping antibiotics into animals. In further evidence that this practice is fuelling a public health crisis, a new study has found a disconcerting trend at Chinese farms: Flies are spreading the gene that gives bacteria resistance to our strongest antibiotics, and it's showing up in hospitalised humans.