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New Species of Orchid Discovered in Ecuador

Maxillaria anacatalinaportillae. Image credit: Hugo Medina.
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. Image credit: Hugo Medina. The genus Maxillaria, abbreviated as Max in the horticultural trade, belongs to one of the most diverse and species-rich groups of orchids. Depending on the applied classification, it counts from approximately 420, through 634 to 750 species. Commonly called spider...

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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...

An artist’s reconstruction of Carnotaurus sastrei, an abelisaurid theropod that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous epoch, sometime between 72 and 70 million years ago. Image credit: Jake Baardse.

Meet Guemesia ochoai, New Abelisaurid Dinosaur from Argentina

Feb 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod has been identified from a partially complete skull found in northwestern Argentina. An artist’s reconstruction...

Two New Prehistoric Bird Species Identified in China

Feb 22, 2022 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found six specimens from three species of ornithuromorph birds — two of which are new to science — at the Changma locality...

Life reconstruction of Iberospinus natarioi. Image credit: Victor Feijó de Carvalho.

New Spinosaurid Dinosaur Unearthed in Portugal

Feb 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of dinosaur being named Iberospinus natarioi has been discovered by Dr. Octávio Mateus and Dr. Darío Estraviz-López from Portugal’s...

Life reconstruction of Woodwardopterus freemanorum. Image credit: Alison Douglas.

Youngest Sea Scorpion Fossil Found in Australia

Feb 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Woodwardopterus freemanorum was over 1 m (3.3 feet) in length and lived some 252 million years ago (Late Permian epoch) in a freshwater environment. Life...

An artist’s impression of the Roque 12 binary system in the Pleiades cluster. Image credit: Sci-News.com / NASA / ESA / AURA / Caltech.

Astronomers Find Widest-Separation Brown Dwarf Pair to Date

Feb 18, 2022 by Natali Anderson

At an estimated distance of 130.5 light-years, CWISE J014611.20-050850.0AB has a projected separation of 129 AU (astronomical units), or 129 times the...

Caffeine blocks PCSK9 expression and increases LDL cholesterol clearance in hepatocytes. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Study: Caffeine Impacts Expression of Genes Known to Mediate Cardiovascular Risk

Feb 18, 2022 by News Staff

Evidence suggests that caffeine reduces cardiovascular disease risk. However, the mechanism by which this occurs is still unknown. In a new study, researchers...

Astronomers Find Obscuring Dust Ring around Supermassive Black Hole in Messier 77

Feb 17, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Multi AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment (MATISSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have spotted a dense,...

This radio-infrared image shows the radio galaxy Alcyoneus. Image credit: Oei et al., arXiv: 2202.05427.

LOFAR Telescope Spots Biggest Radio Galaxy Ever

Feb 16, 2022 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered radio galaxy, dubbed Alcyoneus, has a projected length of 16.3 million light-years (4.99 Mpc). This radio-infrared image shows the...

The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus). Image credit: Seashalia Gibb.

Scientists Sequence Genome of Numbat

Feb 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Two teams of genetic researchers have sequenced the genome of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), a critically endangered Australian insectivorous marsupial...

Fairy Pittas Prepare Food for Their Nestlings, New Study Shows

Feb 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Insect-eating birds that feed nestlings with grasshoppers, beetles, or moths perform insect prey preparation before feeding nestlings so that the nestlings...

An artist’s impression of Confractosuchus sauroktonos attacking an ornithopod dinosaur. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi / White et al., doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.01.016.

Cretaceous Crocodiles Ate Ornithopod Dinosaurs, Fossil Evidence Shows

Feb 14, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized skeletal remains of Confractosuchus sauroktonos, a previously unknown genus and species of crocodyliform,...

This image, taken by the SPHERE/IFS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in 2016, shows three satellites (S1 in red circle, S2 in green, and S3 in blue) of the main-belt asteroid (130) Elektra. Image credit: Berdeu et al., doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142623.

Astronomers Find First-Ever Quadruple Asteroid

Feb 14, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have discovered a third moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid (130) Elektra, making it the first quadruple asteroid ever found. This image,...

An artist’s impression of the white dwarf star WD 1054-226 orbited by clouds of planetary debris and a major planet in the habitable zone. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick / www.markgarlick.com.

Astronomers Find Planetary Bodies in Habitable Zone of White Dwarf

Feb 11, 2022 by News Staff

Using the ULTRACAM instrument on ESO’s 3.5-m New Technology Telescope and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have observed...

Jurassic Long-Necked Dinosaur Suffered from Aspergillosis-Like Respiratory Infection

Feb 11, 2022 by News Staff

The pulmonary disease infecting this diplodocine dinosaur, nicknamed ‘Dolly,’ would not been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward...

The diversity of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was already declining some 900 to 800 years before its discovery by Georg Wilhelm Steller. Image credit: R. Ellis.

Genetic Secrets of Steller’s Sea Cow Revealed

Feb 11, 2022 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from fragmentary remains of 12 individuals of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis...

An artist’s impression of the G29-38 white dwarf, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk; when the planetary material hits the white dwarf surface, a plasma is formed and cools via detectable X-ray emission. Image credit: Mark Garlick / University of Warwick.

White Dwarf Spotted Eating Planetary Debris

Feb 10, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected five X-ray events from G29-38, which is among the 100 closest white dwarfs. Their results...

An artist’s impression of Proxima d. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.

Potential Third Planet Discovered Orbiting Proxima Centauri

Feb 10, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Using data from the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers...

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