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...
Using black widow spiders, a team of scientists has successfully extracted, amplified, and sequenced mitochondrial DNA from spider webs that identified...
A group of Greek and German archaeologists has discovered a 300,000 to 600,000 year old elephant butchering site near the modern-day city of Megalopolis,...
Three inch (7 cm) long herbivorous wasps flew through the landscapes of what is now British Columbia some 53 million years ago, according to Dr Alexandr...
Our planet, Jupiter and other compact bodies are surrounded by ultra-dense filaments of dark matter called ‘hairs,’ suggests Dr Gary Prézeau of NASA’s...
Excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at a site near the town of Netivot, southern Israel have revealed a Byzantine-era settlement dating...
Marine biologists have long known that armored mollusks called chitons have hundreds of small eyes dotting the surface of their hard turtlelike shells....
A beautiful Roman-era mosaic has been uncovered in the Neve Yerek neighborhood of Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv, by archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities...
A new genetic study of myxozoans, a large group of parasites that infect invertebrate and aquatic vertebrate hosts, confirms that these weird microorganisms...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a giant new ice cloud in low- to mid-stratosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
In 2012 Cassini spotted...
A team of Australian paleontologists has unearthed a trove of fossils on the island of Timor, including the bones of eight giant rat species.
The extant...
A multinational team of scientists – led by Dr Senjie Lin of Xiamen University and the University of Connecticut – has mapped the genome of Symbiodinium...
