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A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China. The artistic reconstruction...

A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China. Life reconstruction...

The Soii Havzak rockshelter in the Zeravshan Valley in Tajikistan contains several phases of Paleolithic occupation rich in stone tools, faunal and charcoal...

There is no obvious evidence for one or more large exoplanets plowing through the face-on debris disk encircling Vega, one of the brightest stars in the...

Paleontologists have discovered the well-preserved fossilized remains of a tadpole of the early anuran species Notobatrachus degiustoi at the locality...

A new species of megacheiran arthropod from the Ordovician period, preserved in 3D by pyrite (commonly known as fool’s gold), has been discovered by...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi, based on an isolated wing found in Gloucestershire,...

Paleontologists have found a fossilized jaw fragment and three isolated teeth from a new, relatively large (by Late Cretaceous standards) metatherian species...

Paleontologists say they have discovered the first fossil of an Australian sawfly species, Baladi warru, found at McGraths Flat in central New South Wales. Baladi...

In 2000, archaeologists discovered the 300,000 to 400,000-year-old remains of three ancient elephants along with 87 stone tools at the Pampore in the Kashmir...

Ornithologists have described a new species of tanager in the genus Trichothraupis living on the Eastern slopes of the Andes. Trichothraupis melanops (above)...

Paleontologists have identified a species of medium-sized iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from two specimens found in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Life...

Quaestio simpsonorum is part of the Ediacara Biota, which preserves the oldest evidence for complex, macroscopic animals. Close up of Quaestio simpsonorum...

Marine biologists have identified a new species of the skate genus Leucoraja lurking in the depths of the Southwestern Indian Ocean. The brown longnose...

In reference to the otherworldly sounds by which these treefrogs of the genus Boophis fill Malagasy rainforests, some of them reminiscent of sounds of...

Europa Clipper lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on October 14, 2024 to begin a six-year journey to Jupiter’s...

Paleontologists say they’ve identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid genus Platypterygius that lived approximately 125 million...

The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of physicists from China. The region of the nuclear chart...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from a semi-articulated specimen found in the 1990s in northern Wyoming, the...