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Tupac, a young male bonobo scratching its head. Image credit: Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project.

Bonobo Calls Show Signs of Complex Communication, Says New Study

Apr 4, 2025 by News Staff

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can...

A 15-cm-tall depas amphikypellon excavated by Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. Image credit: Valentin Marquardt / University of Tübingen.

Wine Drinking in Ancient Troy Was Not Restricted to Royal Elite, Archaeologists Say

Apr 2, 2025 by News Staff

Since its discovery during Heinrich Schliemann’s excavations at the legendary fortress city of Troy, the depas amphikypellon — a cylindrical goblet...

Garudapterus buffetauti. Image credit: DinoThaiThai / Manitkoon et al. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106135.

Paleontologists Discover New Pterosaur Species in Thailand

Mar 31, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A remarkable new genus and species of gnathosaurine pterosaur being named Garudapterus buffetauti has been identified from a fossilized upper jaw found...

This composite image, made using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, shows auroral activity (cyan splotches) on Neptune. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Heidi Hammel, AURA / Henrik Melin, Northumbria University / Leigh Fletcher, University of Leicester / Stefanie Milam, NASA-GSFC.

Webb Detects Trihydrogen, Captures Aurorae on Neptune for First Time

Mar 26, 2025 by News Staff

Emissions from the upper-atmospheric trihydrogen cation (H3+) have been used to study the global-scale interactions of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus with...

This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane, and NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA / Dan Gallagher.

Curiosity Finds Long-Chain Carbon Molecules in Martian Mudstone

Mar 25, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected decane, undecane, and dodecane molecules in a sample from Gale crater. This...

An artist’s impression of Darwinopterus camposi. Image credit: Maurilio Oliveira / Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

New Pterosaur Species Discovered in China: Darwinopterus camposi

Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of the wukongopterid pterosaur genus Darwinopterus has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in western Liaoning, China. An...

Life reconstruction of the ctenochasmatid pterosaur Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis. Image credit: Zhao Chuang.

147-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Fossil Discovered in England

Mar 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered and described a new ctenochasmatid pterosaurian mandible from the Late Jurassic Portland Limestone Formation of southern...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

ALMA Detects Oxygen in Farthest Known Galaxy

Mar 20, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected oxygen in the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found, JADES-GS-z14-0....

An image of the CMB radiation from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope; orange and blue represent more or less intense radiation. Image credit: ACT Collaboration.

Atacama Cosmology Telescope Captures Clearest Images Yet of Cosmic Microwave Background

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

New images from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) reveal the Universe when it was about 380,000 years old. An image of the CMB radiation from the Atacama...

A 30,000-year-old fossilized feather of griffon vulture preserved with the volcanic rock from the Colli Albani volcanic complex, Rome, Italy. Image credit: Edoardo Terranova.

30,000-Year-Old Fossil Feathers of Griffon Vulture Found in Italy

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

Fossil feathers are usually preserved as carbonaceous films and impressions in lacustrine and marine sediments, or embedded in amber, but rarely mineralized....

Wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future paleontologists. Image credit: Gemini AI.

Wind Turbine Blades May Be among Most Surprising Technofossils for Future Paleontologists

Mar 18, 2025 by News Staff

University of Leicester paleontologists Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz have published a new book on how all the different kinds of so-called technofossils...

Speculative restoration of Infernodrakon hastacollis. Image credit: Jun-Hyeok Jang / CC BY-SA 4.0.

New Species of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Unearthed in Montana

Mar 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of azhdarchid pterosaur being named Infernodrakon hastacollis has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from Idaho State...

This Webb/NIRCam image shows the multi-planet system HR 8799. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / W. Balmer, JHU / L. Pueyo, STScI / M. Perrin, STScI.

Webb Directly Images Multiple Giant Exoplanets around Two Young Stars

Mar 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured coronagraphic images of the HR 8799...

Tentative reconstruction of Clavusodens mcginnisi (modeled after Netsepoye) feeding on phyllocarid crustaceans on the sea floor of a crinoidal forest from the Joppa Member of the Ste. Genevieve Formation, with the ctenacanth Glikmanius careforum swimming overhead. Image credit: Benji Paysnoe / NPS Illustration.

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Carboniferous-Period Shark

Mar 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of obruchevodid petalodont (petal-toothed) shark from multiple teeth unearthed at Mammoth Cave...

The Babar myzomela (Myzomela babarensis). Image credit: James A. Eaton.

New Bird Species Identified in Indonesia

Mar 14, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom...

This image from Webb’s NIRCam instrument shows Saturn

Saturn Now Has 274 Moons after New Discovery

Mar 13, 2025 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France has observed 128 additional moons orbiting the gas giant Saturn, bringing its...

Ornithischian trackmakers of the ichnospecies Anomoepus scambus. Image credit: University of Queensland.

200-Million-Year-Old Three-Toed Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Australia

Mar 12, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have studied and described three previously unknown dinosaur track-bearing surfaces from a locality near Biloela in Queensland, Australia. Dinosaur...

An artist’s illustration of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s star. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld.

Astronomers Find Evidence for Four Sub-Earth Exoplanets around Barnard’s Star

Mar 11, 2025 by News Staff

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s star in the hope of finding planets around it. First discovered by E.E. Barnard at Yerkes Observatory...

Chadititan calvoi. Image credit: Gabriel Lio.

New Titanosaur Species Discovered in Argentina

Mar 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists working in northern Patagonia, Argentina, have unearthed the fossils of a previously unknown species of small rinconsaurian titanosaur. Chadititan...