A team of researchers has discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko on the East Montalivet Island off the north coast of the Kimberley region in Western...
According to a team of researchers from the Northumbria University, UK, their new study could explain why Fabio Capello recently quit as England manager...
There have been many hypotheses why zebra have stripes, including predator confusion, crypsis or thermoregulation, but the correct answer was unknown –...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossil organisms, which they believe are the first animals that lived on Earth.
Fossilized Otavia...
A team of astronomers has used the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to take the most detailed panorama of the Carina Nebula in infrared light.
The...
An international team of researchers has reconstructed a song played by a prehistoric bushcricket some 165 million years ago.
A modern-day bushcricket...
A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification.
Carrion beetles:...
ESA’s Mars Express has revealed a strong evidence of an ocean once covering the northern part of Mars.
Ancient northern ocean on Mars (ESA / C. Carreau)
Using...
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed the foundation of a large fortress on the Hill of Jonah in Ashdod.
Remains...
ESA’s Mars Express has returned a stunning close-up of the Syrtis Major region on Mars.
Part of the Syrtis Major region on Mars (ESA / DLR / FU Berlin...
A team of biologists has discovered a new remarkable species of Andean semiaquatic lizard in southern Peru.
An adult male Potamites montanicola (Germán...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of the brightest distant ‘magnified’ galaxy known to date.
Galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623...
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution and Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Gottingen,...
A team of paleontologists has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed ‘Shieldcroc’ due to a thick-skinned shield on its head.
A...
A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages.
The moss Physcomitrella...
A team of researchers from the University of Montreal has revealed that emotional responses differ between men and women, and that a woman’s memory of...
