A new study published in the journal Biology Letters shows that red kangaroos use their muscular tail just like a leg.
The red kangaroo (Macropus rufus)...
Previously thought to be ocean surface dwellers, box rays (Mobula tarapacana) can dive to depths of 2,000 meters, according to a team of scientists from...
A new study on the teeth of extinct sand tiger sharks Striatolamia macrota and Carcharias spp. has provided the first estimate of Eocene (50 million years...
According to a new study conducted by Washington State University anthropologists Dr Tim Kohler and Dr Kelsey Reese, pre-Columbian Native Americans experienced...
After several weather delays, engineers from NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project have successfully tested a flying saucer-shaped spacecraft...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Robert Wittenmyer of the University of New South Wales has discovered a super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the...
Scientists at Monash University have announced the discovery of three previously unrecorded ancient volcanoes in the Hamilton area of the Newer Volcanics...
An international group of biologists led by Dr Jack Dumbacher from California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has described a new species of elephant-shrew...
The former NBA star Yao Ming has teamed up with non-profit organization Sea Turtles 911 and Hainan Normal University to save Green turtles (Chelonia mydas).
Yao...
Analysis of sediment samples from El Salt – a known site of Neanderthal occupation in Spain that dates back 50,000 years – suggests that Neanderthals...
A team of scientists led by Dr Roger Deane from the University of Cape Town in South Africa has discovered a system of three supermassive black holes –...
Elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol could be linked with lower rates of participation in elections, says a new study published in the journal...
An international group of paleontologists has described an aquatic larva of a prehistoric fly that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, about 165...
Based on the discovery of the Higgs boson and the recent results from the BICEP2 collaboration, UK physicists have made a surprising prediction: the Universe...
Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) use a light-dependent, inclination magnetic compass to orient during migration, according...
