According to paleontologists from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, long-extinct Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater...
A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has found that great white sharks live significantly longer than previously though.
The great...
An international team of astronomers has used the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to collect a detailed image of the barred...
Scientists led by Lauren Palladino and Dr Kelly Holley-Bockelmann from Vanderbilt University have identified a new class of hypervelocity stars (HVSs)...
A large group of genetic scientists has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii).
The elephant shark, Callorhinchus...
Fossilized skin pigments from an 85 million-year-old mosasaur, a 193 million-year-old ichthyosaur and a 55 million-year-old leatherback turtle have revealed...
A newly discovered genus and species of primitive carnivorous animal that lived in what is now Europe roughly 55 million years ago sheds light on the origins...
An unusual stellar object named ROXs 42Bb may represent a new kind of planets or it may be a very rare planet-mass brown dwarf, according to a group of...
Astronomers, led by Dr David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered two new extrasolar planets circling a dim, red...
An international team of paleontologists has reported the important discovery of a new fossil species in the cockroach genus Ectobius.
The Dusky cockroach...
An international team of astronomers, reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org), used the magnification power of the massive cluster of galaxies...
According to a study led by Don Larson of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) freeze up to 60 percent of their bodies...
Astronomers have discovered a unique stellar system of the superdense pulsar PSR J0337+1715 and two white dwarfs, all packed within a space smaller than...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have directly imaged the huge amounts of freshly formed dust in the remnant of...
An international team of researchers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered previously-unseen companions in the protostellar systems...
A 100-million-year-old piece of amber from mines in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar (formerly Burma) has revealed the oldest known evidence of sexual reproduction...
According to a new study published in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, human lungs have odor receptors.
A diagram of the...
According to University of Cincinnati archaeologists digging in the famed Roman city, the poor and mid-level Pompeians ate grains, fruits, nuts, olives,...
