Feb 12, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extinct lamniform shark genus Palaeohypotodus based on 17 fossilized teeth found in Alabama, the United...

Jan 25, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

A team of paleontologists from Oklahoma State University, the University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum has added another species of caenagnathid...

Jan 15, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

A Brazilian anthropologist has reconstructed the face of the archaic human species Homo longi from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China...

Jan 10, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest ever primate and one of the largest species of the southeast Asian megafauna, persisted in China from about 2 million...

Nov 15, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Recurring viral outbreaks have a significant negative impact on society. This creates a need to develop novel strategies to complement the existing antiviral...

Oct 13, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Anthropologists in Greece have used facial reconstruction techniques to show how Homo heidelbergensis, a poorly understood relative of Neanderthals that...

Oct 3, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Tea, a beverage consumed extensively worldwide, has been reported to be associated with substantial health benefits, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular...

Sep 20, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists from Fukui Prefectural University and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum have added another species of theropod dinosaur to the prehistoric...

Sep 19, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have published the first high-quality reference genome for the butternut (Juglans cinerea), a member of the...

Aug 16, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

In a study sample of 380,000 environmentally oriented users, nearly 47.5% became inactive on Twitter (recently renamed X) after it was sold in October...

Jul 26, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists have discovered three footprints of Homo heidelbergensis — a direct ancestor of Neanderthals — and numerous footprints of elephants...

Jul 17, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

A new genus and species of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur being named Calvarius rapidus has been described by a duo of paleontologists from the Universitat...

Jul 3, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of vampyromorph coleoid from a fossil specimen found in the Middle Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône...

Jun 29, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

This dinosaur weighed around 75 kg, making it one of the smallest known sauropodomorph species, and the smallest ever reported from the Jurassic period. Massospondylus...

Jun 27, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Eudyptula wilsonae is the smallest extinct crown penguin yet known and is a possible ancestor of the kororā or New Zealand little penguin (Eudyptula minor...

Jun 26, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists from Queensland Museum have described three new species of carnivorous demosponges from the Great Barrier Reef, in Queensland, Australia. The...

Jun 20, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

A new genus and species of mosasaurid being named Sarabosaurus dahli has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from the United States, the Netherlands...

Jun 6, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

The newly-discovered black hole resides in the hyperluminous galaxy GN-z11 at a redshift of 11 and could have originated from a stellar mass seed at redshifts...

May 26, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

The 153,000-year-old footprint, which was found in the Garden Route National Park, a national park in the Garden Route region of the South African Western...

May 10, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists have unearthed four cervical vertebrae of Jurassic pliosaurid in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The...