A huge, cone-shaped monument has been discovered by a team of Israeli archaeologists conducting a geophysical survey on the southern Sea of Galilee.
The...
A newly discovered bird-like dinosaur named Aurornis xui is about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur previously considered...
The giant oarfish Regalecus glesne has been caught on film in the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Top: Regalecus glesne observed on February...
In a new study conducted by U.S. team of scientists from Columbia University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, mice engineered with...
Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a new scorpion species from the extraordinarily biodiversity rich region of the...
A new small study of healthy women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics has provided the first evidence that changing the bacterial...
The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...
Scientists from the United States and Japan have discovered unusual spindle-shaped organic microfossils in 3 billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara Craton...
According to research led by Dr Magali Pujol from the University of Lorraine in France, bubbles of water found in Archaean hydrothermal quartz in Australia...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved skeleton of a new tiny, tree-dwelling primate named Archicebus achilles that lived...
U.S. paleontologists have described a new giant species of lizard that lived in what is now Myanmar up to 40 million years ago.
Reconstruction of Barbaturex...
Using high-pressure synchrotron radiation techniques at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a team of researchers has examined the structure, bonding...
Doctoral student Karen Collins from the University of Louisville and her colleagues using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) have discovered...
Prof Patrice Rey from the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney has described for the first time the dramatic geological events that created...
Four new studies of carbon isotopes in fossilized tooth enamel from early hominins, including Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus boisei and Kenyanthropus...
An international consortium of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of the Costa Rican Matina cacao variety, the most widely cultivated cacao type...
Etruscan amphorae and a limestone pressing platform unearthed at the ancient coastal port site of Lattara in southern France provide the earliest known...
