And as it decays, it is leaving behind a tail of matter like a comet. The planet BD+05 4868 A is located 140 light-years away, and is around the mass of Mercury. Unlike Mercury, though ...

“The tail is the easy part,” Renee LaCoss, Shelburne Farms’ herdsman, said last Saturday as she handed a participant at the farm’s lambing clinic the tight rubber band that would eventually dock the ...

Measuring ten feet long from beak tip to tail, the enormous creature had a long ... they’re also being eaten by foxes, crows and sheep. If young curlews cannot survive to reproductive age ...