SPT-CL J0019-2026, a huge cluster of galaxies located 4.6 billion light-years away in the constellation of Cetus, has so much mass that it acts as a gravitational...
The 80-cm- (31.5-inch) long footprint was possibly made by a Megalosaurus-like theropod dinosaur, and is assigned to the ichnogenus Megalosauripus.
The...
The newly-discovered species, Hyloscirtus tolkieni, belongs to the stream-breeding treefrog genus Hyloscirtus; its specific epithet, tolkieni, is in honor...
Miracinonyx trumani is an extinct species of cheetah-like cat that roamed the North American prairies and steppe terrains more than 13,000 years ago.
Miracinonyx...
In a series of experiments conducted in Japan, mirror-naïve bluestreak cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus) frequently attacked photographs of both...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a trio of merging galaxies called SDSSCGB 10189.
This Hubble...
Oldowan tools, consisting of stones with one to a few flakes removed, are the oldest widespread and temporally persistent hominin tools. The oldest of...
The recovery of life from the devastating end-Permian mass extinction, which peaked about 252.3 million years ago, was an important period of evolution....
One of the two new species, Kumimanu fordycei, weighed up to 160 kg and may have been the largest penguin ever to have lived, according to Bruce Museum...
According to new research from the University of Bologna and the Sant’Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, self-reported regular coffee drinkers have...
The new image of Messier 61, a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo, combines data taken at radio and visible wavelengths and is helping...
A new genus and species of giant colossosaurian titanosaur has been identified from fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina.
An artist’s reconstruction...
In a nationwide cohort study, scientists in Denmark investigated the association between residential road traffic and railway noise exposure, measured...
A new image taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Donatiello II, a recently-discovered dwarf galaxy associated with the nearby spiral galaxy...
Scientists have found fragments a human-made projectile point in a rib of an American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from the Manis site, Washington, the...
Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, present in Europe and western Asia between...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized brain and cranial nerve soft tissues of Coccocephalus wildi, a species of early ray-finned fish that lived...
LEDA 2046648 is accompanied by a profusion of smaller, more distant galaxies which range from fully-fledged spirals to mere bright smudges.
This Webb image...
Turnersuchus hingleyae, a new genus and species of thalattosuchian crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic epoch, helps fill a gap in the fossil record...
