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Paleontologists have identified a new species of rodent in Acarechimys, an extinct genus with a widespread South American distribution, from a partial...

The second half of the first millennium CE in Central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by fundamental cultural and political transformations. This period...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has explored and sampled igneous and sedimentary rocks within Jezero crater to characterize early Martian geological processes...

Marine biologists have described three new species of deep-sea snailfishes in the family Liparidae from the eastern abyssal Pacific (depths 3,268 to 4,119...

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for gaseous methane on the distant dwarf planet Makemake. Reported in...

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extinct turtle genus Craspedochelys based on a remarkable fossil shell and some of its postcranial...

Super-cooling radioactive atoms could produce a laser-like neutrino beam, according to a duo of physicists from MIT and the University of Texas at Arlington....

Paleontologists at the University of Leicester have examined the 150-million-year-old fossilized skeletons of two highly immature Pterodactylus antiquus...

The armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best known from Late Cretaceous northern hemisphere ecosystems, but their early evolution in the Early-Middle Jurassic...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared gap of...

Archaeologists have performed the first systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the composition, technology, and contents of 51 ‘Phoenician oil bottles’...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of stem-chelydrid turtle using complete fossilized shells and associated material found in the Early...

A new genus and species of sail-backed iguanodontian dinosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton found in the Wessex Formation of the Isle of...

Labeled FRB 20250316A and nicknamed RBFLOAT (Radio Brightest FLash Of All Time), the event occurred in the outer regions of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a previously unknown tiny moon — provisionally designated S/2025 U 1...

First discovered in 1997 and described as a new species two years later, the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis) is one of two living species...

In his new paper, Professor Jonathan Tan, an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia and the Chalmers University of Technology, proposes that Population...

Tiny, toothed mammalodontids were among the strangest of all whales. If alive today, they would be as iconically Australian as kangaroos. In a new paper...

New hominin fossils recovered from the Ledi-Geraru Research Project area in the Afar region of Ethiopia suggest the presence of early Homo at 2.78 and...