Genetic researchers from the International Sheep Genomics Consortium have sequenced the complete genome of domestic sheep (Ovis aries).
Domestic sheep....
Biologists have described a new species of moonseed plant from the dry forests and transient sand dunes of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Cissampelos arenicola,...
Paleontologists have discovered remains of about 40 male and female individuals of a new pterosaur species with five exceptionally well-preserved 3D eggs...
A study published in the journal Science provides new evidence that the Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of the proto-Earth with a hypothetical...
A series of previously unnoticed images consisting of paintings of boats, animals, deities and buildings has been discovered on the walls of Cambodia’s...
HV 2112 – a giant, variable star in a nearby galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud – represents a long-sought class of stars called Thorne-Zytkow...
Individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging, according...
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) cope with extreme heat by resting against cooler tree trunks, according to a new study led by Dr Michael Kearney from...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of crocodile-like reptile that swam in the rivers of what is now Colombia during Paleocene, about 60 million...
Astronomers led Dr Guillem Anglada-Escude from Queen Mary University of London, UK, have announced the discovery of two exoplanets circling a very old...
A team of paleontologists led by Dr Patricio Zambrano Lobos from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany has unearthed the well-preserved...
Dr Ernst Heiss from the Tiroler Landesmuseum in Innsbruck, Austria, has described a new extinct species of flat bug.
Aradus macrosomus, a 9.2-mm-long female,...
Astronomers using the HARPS-North instrument on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands have found that the extrasolar planet Kepler-10c,...
Scientists have described a spectacular new species of shade lizard from the cloudforests of northwestern Ecuador.
Alopoglossus viridiceps, male, about...
Researchers from the University of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History have found a striking lack of diversity in the earliest known fossil...
A team of physicists led by Dr Hrvoje Petek from the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has detected, for the first time,...
