Paleontologists have discovered a set of ancient bear footprints in Honseca Cave, northern Spain. Although distinguishing cave bear from brown bear tracks...
Two new species of the genus Tuber have been discovered with the assistance of trained truffle-hunting dogs.
Tuber cumberlandense. Image credit: Sow et...
The new isopod species has been named Bathynomus vaderi after the most famous Sith Lord in the Star Wars movie series, Darth Vader, whose helmet resembles...
To study migration and mobility history in the Ukraine region, with a particular focus on migrating groups during the Iron Age and the Medieval period,...
Mycena crocata is a long-known species of fungus frequently reported from Europe and Japan, which was considered non-luminescent until now.
Heinzelmann...
Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived during the Middle Devonian epoch around 390 million years ago, is represented...
Paleontologists in New Zealand have discovered a partial skeleton of platypterygiid ichthyosaur dating to the Cretaceous period.
A pair of Platypterygius...
Kepler-51 is a 500-million-year-old G-type star hosting four low density planets, according to a new paper published in the Astronomical Journal.
This...
The Neanderthal groups that inhabited a cave in what is now Spain approximately 46,000 years ago gathered and collected fossils, according to a paper published...
The newly-discovered exoplanet orbits TOI-3261 (also known as TIC 358070912), an inactive main-sequence star located 300 parsecs (978.5 light-years) away...
Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system....
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of quetzalcoatline azhdarchid pterosaur, Nipponopterus mifunensis, from the Late Cretaceous...
Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) may contribute to the pollination of the Ethiopian red hot poker flower (Kniphofia foliosa), according...
An international team of researchers has described a new species of miniaturized gecko in the genus Pseudogonatodes from the Peninsula de Paria in northeastern...
Marine biologists at Queensland Museum Kurilpa have described a new species of hermit crab, Strigopagurus fragarchela (common name is the strawberry-clawed...
A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China.
The artistic reconstruction...
Using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), marine biologists have discovered six new species of carnivorous sponges in the family Cladorhizidae from the...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi, based on an isolated wing found in Gloucestershire,...
Ornithologists have described a new species of tanager in the genus Trichothraupis living on the Eastern slopes of the Andes.
Trichothraupis melanops (above)...
Marine biologists have identified a new species of the skate genus Leucoraja lurking in the depths of the Southwestern Indian Ocean.
The brown longnose...
