A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has uncovered about 400 years of intensive land use around the ancient city of Mahendraparvata, Cambodia.
Buddhist...
A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean.
Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri, Ras Mohammed,...
Paleontologists from the United States and China have described a new large plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now northwestern China during the...
In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...
New research explains how a bizarre species of snake scientifically called Chrysopelea paradisi can glide as much as 30 meters from trees.
The Paradise...
Planetary scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and European Space Astronomy have created a map of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout...
A study led by Leila Deravi of Harvard University has provided new details on the adaptive camouflage of a peculiar marine animal called cuttlefish.
The...
A living cold-water coral reef has been discovered by chance in the waters off southern Greenland.
This image, taken at a depth of about 900 meters, shows...
The acrobatic courtship displays of male Golden-collared manakins (Manacus vitellinus) are less energetically costly than they appear, says a group of...
Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, say they have unearthed a 3,100-year-old building and a number of artifacts at the archaeological...
The genome sequence of a man who lived in what is modern Spain 7,000 years ago reveals that European hunter-gatherers were dark-skinned and blue-eyed.
This...
An international group of paleontologists reported the discovery of a fossil seabird species that lived in what is modern New Zealand during the early...
Scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom have described a fossil species of marine arthropod that lived during the Silurian period.
This...
New research conducted by an international team of marine biologists reveals that the mantis shrimp Haptosquilla trispinosa uses a unique color vision...
