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First published in 1865 as a caterpillar, nearly fifty years before the discovery of Canada’s Burgess Shale, Palaeocampa anthrax shuffled between classifications...

Using the speckle imager ‘Alopeke on the Gemini North telescope, one half of NSF’s International Gemini Observatory, astronomers have captured direct...

The Solnhofen Archipelago is a series of islands that existed during the Late Jurassic epoch in what is now Bavaria, Germany. Life representation of Sphenodraco...

Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope at NSF’s International Gemini Observatory have captured 3I/ATLAS as it makes its temporary passage through...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of mole (family Talpidae) from a partial skeleton discovered at the Pliocene-aged site of Camp...

Using twin detectors of NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), astrophysicists with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration...

Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new species of early-diverging neornithischian dinosaur that was part of the Jurassic Yanliao Biota...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized dental remains from a new genus and species of plagiaulacid multituberculate in the Lower Cretaceous Lulworth...

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized jawbone of a new pterosaur species alongside hundreds of other fossils — including one of the world’s...

Paleontologists have described a new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur genus Zhongyuansaurus using a specimen found in China’s Henan province. Life...

Low-density amorphous ice is one of the most common solid materials in the Universe and a key material for understanding the many famous anomalies of liquid...

After the interstellar asteroid 1I/ʻOumuamua and the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is the third object and the second comet from outside the...

The hot-Jupiter exoplanet HIP 67522b orbits its parent star, HIP 67522, so tightly that it appears to cause frequent flares from the star’s surface,...

An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome from an adult male Egyptian who lived between over 4,500 years ago — a few centuries...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of mid-sized pareiasaur from two fossilized specimes found in China in 2018. An artist’s reconstruction...

These fossil fungi from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber are from the same family as the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which has gained widespread...

A remarkable new genus and species of neornithischian dinosaur being named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae has been identified from a three-dimensionally...

Hemifusomes constitute up to 10% of vesicular organelles at the cell periphery but do not engage in canonical endocytic pathways, according to a team of...

Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered an ancient complex roughly 215 km (130 miles) south-east of Tiwanaku’s historical site, where a large, modular...