An international team of ornithologists from Sweden and New Zealand has described a new genus for a bird species called the lesser moorhen.
A new genus...
A large team of researchers reported this week that it had sequenced the whole genomes of four prehistoric Irish individuals: a Neolithic woman (3343 –...
A new species of bioluminescent shark has been described from eight specimens collected off the Pacific coast of Central America at depths ranging between...
A team of scientists from the United Kingdom has captured first video recordings documenting how New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) make ‘hooked...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Zongcheng Ling of Shandong University in Weihai, the Chinese lunar rover Yutu has found basalts unlike those...
A pair of jets of very hot gas protrude outwards in perfect symmetry in this striking image of the Herbig-Haro (HH) object HH 24, taken by the NASA/ESA...
HH 34, a curious object in the constellation of Orion, is captured in this amazing image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
This composite image shows...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back the highest definition images of Nix yet.
This panchromatic image of Pluto’s small moon Nix was taken...
A new species of ornithopod dinosaur has been discovered in Spain dating back 125 million years to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch.
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A team of paleontologists has discovered several early Cambrian (535 million years old) fossils of kinorhynch worms, including the new species Eokinorhynchus...
In two new studies, published today in the journal Nature, the dwarf planet Ceres reveals some of its most eye-catching secrets. In the first study, researchers...
Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of palaeomerycid ruminant that lived about 16 million years ago have been found in Spain, paleontologists...
An engraved object recently found at the site of Moli del Salt in Spain and dated to the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 13,800 years ago, may show...
Astronomers have detected a so-called fast radio burst from around 6 billion light-years away, one of less than two dozen such events they’ve discovered...
A large team of American scientists has found evidence of blood vessel-like structures in the fossil of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a mid-sized duck-billed...
A 78-million-year-old herbivorous horned dinosaur has been identified from a fossil found in the Tar Heel Formation (Black Creek Group) in North Carolina.
The...
A ‘dinosaur’ fossil known as Bathygnathus borealis has been shown to have steak knife-like teeth, and a team of Canadian paleontologists has changed...
