
Hannah Osborne
Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several years at Newsweek as the science editor. Before this she was science editor at International Business Times U.K. Hannah holds a master's in journalism from Goldsmith's, University of London.
Latest articles by Hannah Osborne

Enormous 240 million-year-old sea monster had its head torn off in one clean bite
By Hannah Osborne published
Analysis of bite marks on Tanystropheus hydroides, which lived during the Middle Triassic, showed another predator had attacked from above and torn its neck in two.

Watch cannibal crab gobble up baby crablets in Australia in David Attenborough's 'Our Planet II'
By Hannah Osborne published
The rare footage was taken when filming the red crab migration on Christmas Island.

Primates have been masturbating for at least 40 million years
By Hannah Osborne published
Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all monkeys and apes.

'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever
By Hannah Osborne published
The American crocodile had been isolated in a reptile park enclosure for 16 years when she laid a clutch of eggs.

Burmese pythons are helping rats take over Florida's Everglades — and that could help spread disease
By Hannah Osborne published
The invasion of pythons has had little to no impact on cotton rats, explaining why some areas are now increasingly dominated by rodents.

The Tunguska event was the biggest asteroid impact in recorded history. How did it vanish without a trace?
By Hannah Osborne published
During the Tunguska event, over 8 million trees covering an area of 830 square miles were flattened when an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere.

Shark launches 3 attacks on surfer in Australia, in deadly and 'atypical' encounter
By Hannah Osborne published
The victim was surfing off the coast of South Australia when a shark dragged him under. Bits of wetsuit were later found.

Yellowstone volcano super-eruptions appear to involve multiple explosive events
By Hannah Osborne published
The last caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone "was much more complex than previously thought," according to the annual report about activity at the supervolcano.

NASA spots sign of El Niño from space: 'If it's a big one, the globe will see record warming'
By Hannah Osborne published
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite recorded Kelvin waves moving eastward across the Pacific — a phenomenon often considered a precursor to El Niño.

Weird demon shark with bright white eyes discovered off Australia
By Hannah Osborne published
The shark Apristurus ovicorrugatus was identified as a new species over a decade after the first mystery egg cases were found in a Western Australian museum collection.

Elusive cannibal fish from the twilight zone are washing up on Oregon beaches and no one knows why
By Hannah Osborne published
Oregon State Parks said several lancetfish have washed up on beaches in recent weeks in a highly unusual spate of strandings.

Deadly spiders that can kill in minutes and survive underwater are hiding out in swimming pools
By Hannah Osborne published
Heavy rain in Australia has led to an influx in venomous spiders being washed into people's swimming pools. Species found include funnel-web spiders, the venom of which is so toxic it can kill a child in just 15 minutes.

Photo shows 'massive' great white shark scarred after rare battle with 2 serial killer orcas
By Hannah Osborne published
A pair of orcas off the coast of South Africa have been ripping open sharks and feasting on their livers for the last eight years. A great white shark that survived an attack by the serial killer brothers has now been identified through huge scars across its massive body.

Most powerful solar storm in 6 years caused auroras all over the US. And nobody saw it coming.
By Hannah Osborne published
A severe geomagnetic storm from a huge hole in the sun's corona caused a massive disturbance in Earth's magnetic field. The surprise event sparked auroras as far south as Alabama and northern California.

Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests
By Hannah Osborne published
A draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon’s UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.
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