Researchers from the Osaka City University, the Osaka Metropolitan University and the Bioproduction Research Institute have created a swimming synthetic...
This Pterodactylus individual lived in what is now Germany during the Kimmeridgian age of the Late Jurassic epoch, between 155 and 152 million years ago.
Pterodactylus...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a very detailed image of the open cluster NGC 2660.
This Hubble image shows NGC 2660,...
Paleontologists have examined 142 new specimens, including 160 teeth, of the extinct medium-sized beaver species Steneofiber depereti from the Late Miocene...
The Hubble team has released a beautiful image of Pismis 26, an ancient globular cluster in the constellation of Scorpius.
This Hubble image shows the...
The new Hubble image shows sheets and filaments of debris from a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby, small...
A new genus and species of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized skull bones found in the Haţeg Basin in western Romania.
Inhabitants...
The famous Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye as a fuzzy patch surrounding the star Theta Orionis in the Hunter’s Sword, below Orion’s belt.
This...
Archaeologists in Spain have found a hand-shaped bronze object engraved with words in a Vasconic language, a precursor to the modern Basque language.
The...
The oldest animals appear in the fossil record among Ediacaran biota communities. In new research, paleontologists from the Australian National University...
More than 120 million years ago in what is now China, a hungry dromaeosaurid dinosaur ate a small frog.
Daurlong wangi holotype: (a) whole specimen, (b)...
Astronomers using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have revealed new details surrounding the dark...
Yuzhoulong qurenensis is one of the earliest-diverging members of the sauropod dinosaur clade Macronaria.
Life reconstruction of a macronarian dinosaur....
Archaeologists have found the 780,000-year-old remains of a cooked carp-like fish at the wetland Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel.
Ancient...
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a monumental temple in Vulci, an ancient Etruscan city in Italy.
The corner of the newly-discovered temple...
The Hubble team has released a detailed photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the orange molecular cloud CB 130-3.
This Hubble image shows...
The possible track-makers are individuals from the Neanderthal lineage, according to new research led by Universidad de Huelva paleoanthropologists.
The...
On October 5, 1962, five countries agreed to create the European Southern Observatory (ESO) through the signature of a convention. Now, six decades later...
The new image of the dwarf irregular galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte demonstrates the remarkable ability of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to...
