Our world runs on oil. Unrefined oil, called crude oil, is turned into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel so that we can go to work and school or fly across the world. Factories need oil to operate. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly halted mass transportation and manufacturing, meaning that oil-consuming countries do not want as much oil. For huge oil-producing countries, this means figuring out where to store the oil that has nowhere to go. The Oil Price War Saudi Arabia and Russia are the world’s No. 2 and No. 3 oil-producing countries. Saudi Arabia leads OPEC, a group of the world’s...

Roughly 40 million years ago, you wouldn’t have found many penguins waddling around Antarctica. Instead, you would’ve encountered creatures that you probably wouldn’t expect to see on the frigid continent: frogs! In 2015, Dr. Thomas Mörs, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History led a team of researchers to Seymour Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. Here, the team uncovered fragments of a hip bone and skull from the fossil of a prehistoric frog, proving that frogs had inhabited all seven continents once. An Unusual Discovery Frogs appeared on Earth even before the...