Oct 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have analyzed more than fifty fossilized feces of the South Island Giant Moa, Upland Moa, Heavy-footed Moa and...

Oct 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has for the first time been able to get a complete...

Sep 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have unearthed remains of a theater at the archaeological site of the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, founded in the late 4th century BC. Digging...

Sep 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Two skull fossils unearthed in Germany provide the first direct evidence that lepidosaurs – reptiles closely related to lizards, snakes and tuatara...

Sep 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study published in the journal Science, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck 609 km beneath the Sea of Okhotsk near Kamchatka, Russia,...

Sep 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Simulating paleoclimates in the Sahara region, a team of researchers from Germany and United Kingdom has found evidence of three major river systems that...

Sep 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

The modern-day tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) traces its lineage back to the Lower Cretaceous period – a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth,...

Sep 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Oceanographers led by Dr William Sager from the University of Houston have discovered what they say is the biggest single volcano yet documented on our...

Sep 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers from Japan using NAOJ’s Subaru Telescope have found that the extrasolar planet Gliese 1214b has a water-rich atmosphere. This artist’s...

Sep 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of biologists has described five new species of Vesper bats from Senegal. Image of Nycticeinops schlieffenii which is represented...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Robert Gess from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has discovered what he says is the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana,...

Aug 21, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a beautiful close-up view of an object named Herbig-Haro...

Aug 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of 1,300 stone hand axes found at 80 Neanderthal sites in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands shows that two cultural traditions...

Aug 19, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) have unearthed thousands of pottery fragments, clay lamps and figurines in the City of David in...

Aug 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, climate change may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry has developed an innovative complex method for verifying the authenticity and rooting...

Aug 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of scientists led by Dr Ross Fitzgerald from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, cows may be a source...

Aug 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...