Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first time, California close to a major quake, physicists split photon, and inside China's plans to 'tame nature'

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Click the button below to find out more information. Find out more Jump to category: California is scarily close to a major quake Life's Little Mysteries Physicists split a photon Also in science news this week Science Spotlight Something for the weekend Science video of the week Follow Live Science on social media California is scarily close to a major quake Life's Little Mysteries Physicists split a photon Also in science news this week Science Spotlight Something for the weekend Science video of the week Follow Live Science on social media Rare animals spotted, California due a major quake, photon split into infinite others, and China 'tames nature.' (Image credit: Reid Wiseman/NASA | Getty Images) Jump to category: California is scarily close to a major quake Life's Little Mysteries Physicists split a photon Also in science news this week Science Spotlight Something for the weekend Science video of the week Follow Live Science on social media Copy link Facebook X Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter This week's science news was filled with things missing and found, with the revelation of the first-ever deep-sea footage of the elusive goblin shark making waves in the press.

Goblin sharks (Mitsukurina owstoni) are mysterious, deepwater creatures that have not changed much since they first appeared on Earth 125 million years ago — making them "living fossils." But capturing a recording of the sharks in their deep habitats is exceptionally difficult, and they have previously been seen alive only after being hooked to the surface on fishing lines. Scientists recently filmed not one, but two goblin sharks: The first near Jarvis Island in the South Central Pacific, and the second 6,550 feet (1,997 meters) deep in the Tonga Trench.

If you like your elusive animals on the wilier (and certainly much cuter) side, we also reported on the first ever photographs of the dwarf fox, a species that was believed to be extinct but has been found near a highway in Cozumel, Mexico.Elsewhere, archaeologists found a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, meaning they now have one from each side of the conflict. And separate teams of archaeologists discovered the remains of a prehistoric man in Germany who may have been a human sacrifice and signs of a "prototype" Stonehenge close near the famous Stone Age monument.

If you got this far wondering if the "missing" news items were, well, missing, we also covered how a "cold blob" of absent heat in the Atlantic Ocean is shifting Indian summer monsoons, threatening over one billion people; the Texas-size chunk of ice missing from Antarctica; how an ancient chunk of the moon found in Africa hints at a calamitous lunar collision; and a bizarre viral infection that left a woman unable to recognize her own father.California is scarily close to a major quake'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds The San Jacinto and southern San Andreas faults have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years.(Image credit: Left: Cavan Images / Peter Essick / Getty Images; Right: Burkhard et al.

, 2026 (CC BY 4.0))The next major Californian earthquake could be closer than we thought, according to an ala