Mar 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered and described a new ctenochasmatid pterosaurian mandible from the Late Jurassic Portland Limestone Formation of southern...

Mar 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured coronagraphic images of the HR 8799...

Mar 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of obruchevodid petalodont (petal-toothed) shark from multiple teeth unearthed at Mammoth Cave...

Mar 14, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom...

Mar 12, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have studied and described three previously unknown dinosaur track-bearing surfaces from a locality near Biloela in Queensland, Australia. Dinosaur...

Mar 5, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), a ground-dwelling species of moist eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia, engineers micro-habitats...

Feb 28, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists have described a new species of tiger swallowtail (genus Papilio) from eastern North America. Papilio solstitius: (a) male, holotype and...

Feb 26, 2025 by Natali Anderson

New research demonstrates a potential protective role of citrus fruit on the incidence of depression and suggests that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, a...

Feb 25, 2025 by Natali Anderson

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can...

Feb 25, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Scientists have produced the first chromosome-scale genome assembly of the white oak (Quercus alba), an abundant forest tree species across eastern North...

Feb 24, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Palaeognathae (meaning ‘old jaws’) is a small group of birds which includes several species that have evolved flightlessness and gigantism, such as...

Feb 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Meet Xingxiulong yueorum, a new species of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Jurassic epoch. The...

Feb 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have discovered a new species — and redescribed another one — of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent. The...

Feb 18, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A giant elliptical galaxy called NGC 3640 has engulfed several smaller galaxies in the past, according to an analysis of data from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope...

Feb 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists from the American University in Cairo and elsewhere say they have found an almost complete skull of the hyaenodont Bastetodon syrtos in...

Feb 14, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have described a new specimen of the genus Archaeopteryx from the Mörnsheim Formation in the Franconian Alb of Bavaria, Germany. The Karlsruhe...

Feb 12, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Named SNR J0614-7251 and SNR J0624-6948, the newly-discovered supernova remnants reside in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite...

Feb 11, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Australian National University, has discovered...

Feb 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered a fragmentary skeleton of a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur in the Upper Cretaceous Dalangshan Formation of southern...

Feb 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

An Einstein ring (also known as an Einstein-Chwolson ring or Chwolson ring) is created as the light from distant objects, like galaxies, pass by an extremely...