ANCIENT REPTILE
There's new information about the world's oldest flying reptile, which was discovered in Australia. The giant creature is known as a pterosaur and lived about 107 million years ago. According to a study published today in the journal History Biology, the animal had a wingspan that was 6.5 feet long and was the first vertebrate able to fly. It lived alongside dinosaurs during the Mesozoic Era, which began 252 million years ago.
SHARK SPOTTING
Meanwhile, this shark was recently spotted circling around a man and his son who were taking a dip at Orange Beach, Alabama. The footage was captured on a drone by a 15-year-old who was monitoring sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. The gulf is home to 50 species of sharks, only about half of which are known to have encounters with people.
BEE SWARM
Finally, a huge swarm of bees was filmed over a crowd of spectators at the Indianapolis 500 Race over the weekend. The video shows the bees hovering above spectators. The man who shot the video says the crowd was unfazed by the bees and was mostly focused on the race. There was even a beekeeper sitting a few rows away from the swarm who helped remove the bees after the race. He said there were an estimated 12,000 to 16,000 bees in the stands.
This week's episode of Cheddar's Crypto Craze tackles the latest news and trends in this emerging market. Dropbox files to go public. The dow closes the week up more than 300 points. TV personality Kelly Killoren Bensimon is out with a fur slipper line.
Hanneke Weitering, staff writer at Space.com, discusses SpaceX's launch of the Falcon 9 rocket that carried a Spanish imaging satellite and two demo Starlink broadband test satellites. With this technology, SpaceX hopes to provide high speed, low cost energy across the globe.
Weight Watchers is getting slammed after offering a free membership promotion for teenagers. Project Heal's Kristina Saffran joins Cheddar to discuss the effects early dieting can have on young people's health and wellness.
Cody Gough, podcast host at Curiosity.com, discusses new studies that reveal why we may not want to be around people when we're sick. He also describes the physical characteristics that tell people when we're feeling under the weather.
I-han Chou, senior editor at Nature, discusses a new study about adolescence and how that period of your life influences adulthood.
Concerns over electronics' batteries overheating and potentially exploding have been circling for some time, reaching a head with Samsung's massive recall of its Note Seven phones. That is why KULR Technologies has created technology that protects batteries and material for everything from electric cars to NASA spaceships.
Facebook is back under the microscope for failing to stop the spread of fake news. Sara Fischer, media reporter for AXIOS, joins to explain how the big tech companies are, or are not, addressing the problem.
Extreme weather across the nation this week. New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. experiencing record high temperatures. Meanwhile, parts of Washington state and Denver are seeing record lows. Mashable's Andrew Freedman explains how the polar vortex split is causing wild weather coast to coast.
Temperatures in Washington, D.C., hit 82 degrees on Wednesday, while the West Coast braced for record lows. Andrew Freedman, senior science editor at Mashable, says a "polar vortex split" is partly to blame.
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