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Life reconstruction of Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae. Image credit: San Diego Natural History Museum.

Saber-Toothed Mammal Fossil Unearthed in California

Mar 16, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a bobcat-sized creature from a extinct lineage of carnivorous placental mammals. Life reconstruction...

The New Caledonian storm petrel (Fregetta lineata) off Nouméa, New Caledonia, in January 2020. Image credit: Hadoram Shirihai, Tubenoses Project.

New Species of Storm Petrel Identified

Mar 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Based on the numbers seen at sea, both off Australia and New Caledonia, the population of the New Caledonian storm petrel (Fregetta lineata) is in the...

Theloderma khoii, holotype, male, in life. Image credit: Ninh et al., doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.794.1655.

New Species of Mossy Frog Discovered in Vietnam

Mar 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has described a new species of the tree frog genus Theloderma from northeastern Vietnam. Theloderma khoii, holotype,...

Hutchemys walkerorum. Image credit: Sergey Krasovskiy.

Cretaceous-Period Softshell Turtle Lived alongside Giant Dinosaurs

Mar 14, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of softshell turtle from a partial carapace found in North Dakota, the United States. Hutchemys walkerorum....

The rose-veiled fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa), underwater photograph from Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives, 60 m. Image credit: Luiz Rocha.

New Species of Fairy Wrasse Discovered

Mar 11, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of the fish genus Cirrhilabrus living in the waters off Maldives and Sri Lanka. The rose-veiled...

The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Image credit: University of Melbourne.

Scientists Propose Nine Steps to De-Extinction of Tasmanian Tiger

Mar 10, 2022 by News Staff

The reality of bringing back the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the Tasmanian tiger or the marsupial wolf, from extinction using its...

Saffron, the world’s most expensive spice, is extracted from the flowers of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Image credit: Johan Puisais.

Saffron Crocus was First Domesticated in Ancient Greece

Mar 10, 2022 by News Staff

In a review paper published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, researchers followed ancient arts and recent genetics to trace the evolutionary...

Carboniferous Vampire-Squid-Like Cephalopod Had Ten Arms

Mar 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of vampyropod cephalopod — named Syllipsimopodi bideni after President Joseph Biden — has been identified from an exceptionally...

Dimethyl Ether Detected in Protoplanetary Disk for First Time

Mar 8, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected dimethyl ether (CH3OCH3), nitric oxide (NO) and methyl formate...

Acetabularia jalakanyakae. Image credit: Felix Bast.

New Species of Green Alga Discovered

Mar 7, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have described a new species of the unicellular green algal genus Acetabularia from a rocky intertidal habitat of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Acetabularia...

Stonehenge was Designed as Solar Calendar, Archaeologist Says

Mar 7, 2022 by News Staff

Scholars have long seen in the monumental composition of Stonehenge evidence for prehistoric time-reckoning — a Neolithic calendar. Exactly how such...

New Stegosaur Species Unearthed in China

Mar 5, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Bashanosaurus primitivus is the earliest record of Stegosauria in Asia and represents one of the earliest records of this dinosaur group from anywhere...

An artist’s impression of HR 6819, a close binary consisting of a stripped B-type star (background) and a rapidly rotating Be star (foreground). Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.

HR 6819 is Binary System with No Black Hole, Astronomers Say

Mar 4, 2022 by News Staff

HR 6819, a highly intriguing object that was recently proposed as a multiple system containing a stellar-mass black hole, is in fact a binary star system...

This MAHLI image shows a tighter view of the flower-like rock artifact. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds ‘Coral’ on Mars

Mar 3, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Mars Hand Lens Imager on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has imaged a flower-like rock artifact in the Gale crater on Mars. This image from the MAHLI...

Chandra Detects ‘Sonic Boom’ from Powerful Kilonova

Mar 3, 2022 by News Staff

The binary neutron-star merger GW170817 was discovered in August 2017. Many telescopes saw different kinds of light after the discovery, but only NASA’s...

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, the United States. Image credit: Scott Robert Anselmo / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tyrannosaurus rex Is Not One Species, But Three Different Ones

Mar 2, 2022 by News Staff

An analysis of over three dozen specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex finds that they exhibit such a remarkable degree of proportional variations that the pattern...

Maxillaria anacatalinaportillae. Image credit: Hugo Medina.

New Species of Orchid Discovered in Ecuador

Mar 1, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have described a new species of the Neotropical orchid genus Maxillaria from cloud rainforests of northern Ecuador. Maxillaria anacatalinaportillae....

An artist’s impression of the Middle Jurassic pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach. Image credit: Natalia Jagielska.

New Species of Large-Sized Pterosaur Unearthed in Scotland

Feb 23, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dearc sgiathanach had an estimated wingspan of between 1.9 and 3.8 m (6.2-12.5 feet), roughly the size of the largest flying birds today (e.g., wandering...

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Head-On Galaxy Collision Creates Tsunami of Starbirth

Feb 23, 2022 by News Staff

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing head-on collision between the star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445 an the less...