Ichthyologists have described a new genus and species of electric knifefish from the Rio Negro, the Amazonia State of Brazil.
Procerusternarchus pixuna....
Scientists led by Dr Christo Buizert of Oregon State University have successfully used an innovative radiometric-Krypton-dating technique to determine...
The more massive the bulge of a galaxy, the redder the galaxy, says a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
Linguistic, ecological, archaeological and genetic evidence show that the domesticated chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, originated in central-east Mexico...
A multinational group of scientists led by Dr Peter Elliott of South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide has described a new mineral from...
Marine biologists have described a new species of beaked whale known only from seven specimens found stranded on tropical islands in the western and central...
In two separate studies, geologists led by Dr Haley Sapers from the University of Western Ontario and Dr Pete Schultz of Brown University have found floral,...
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) select a certain type of wood to make their nests, says a team of biologists from the United States.
A male chimpanzee at...
Archaeological activities at the site of the ancient city of Ostia have yielded new and exciting finds.
Newly discovered features at Ostia. Satellite imagery...
A large team of astronomers has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of Kepler-186.
This artistic concept...
According to a team of forensic linguists from Aston University in Birmingham, UK, a mysterious creator of the digital currency Bitcoin is most likely...
Biologists from the United States and Mexico have described a new orchid species from a mountainous area in central Panama.
Lophiaris silverarum. Image...
U.S. geologists have discovered what they say is a Pleistocene landscape preserved about 3 km beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Abour 3 million years ago,...
Eocasea martini, a carnivorous animal that lived in what is today Kansas during Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago, is the oldest known...
Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History have described a shark species that lived during Carboniferous period, about 325 million years...
Astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile, have captured a new image of the little-known nebula Gum 41.
This new...
A new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes 30 Jurassic creatures – five salamanders, one anuran, two lizards, 13 pterosaurs,...
Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and three Canadian research organizations have described four new species of...
Herpetologists from the University of Tulsa and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have described a new species of salamander from Lake Catherine State...
