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An artist’s reconstruction of Yinshanosaurus angustus. Image credit: X.-C. Guo, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

New Species of Permian Herbivorous Tetrapod Identified in China

Jun 30, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Ecological reconstruction of Cretaceous insects and insect-pathogenic fungi. An ant is discarding an infected pupa, and an infected fly is located on a distant tree trunk. Image credit: Zhuang et al., doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0407.

Two Species of Parasitic Fungi Found in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

Jun 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Life reconstruction of Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae. Image credit: Bob Nicholls.

Dog-Sized Neornithischian Dinosaur Unearthed in Colorado

Jun 26, 2025 by News Staff

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

Representative cryo-electron microscopy image of the leading edge of a RAT-1 cell cultured on cryo-EM grids. Lamellipodia and filopodia in the upper right corner delineate the cell border, separating the cytoplasm (Cyt) from the extracellular space (Ext). Vesicular organelles are highlighted in color: early endosome-like vesicles (En, pink), multivesicular bodies (MVB, blue), hemifusomes (HF, yellow), and flipped hemifusomes (fHF, green). Scale bar - 0.5 µm. Image credit: Tavakoli et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-59887-9.

Hemifusomes: Biologists Discover Previously Unknown Organelle Complexes inside Human Cells

Jun 25, 2025 by News Staff

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...

Isometric reconstruction of the Palaspata temple rendered with 3-m-tall walls. Image credit: Capriles et al., doi: 10.15184/aqy.2025.59.

Tiwanaku Civilization’s Temple Discovered in Bolivia

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

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

Life reconstruction of Swaindelphys. Image credit: Kristen Tietjen.

New Species of Metatherian Mammal Unearthed in Texas

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

Members of the metatherian genus Swaindelphys were previously known from Swain Quarry in south-central Wyoming and the Nacimiento Formation in the San...

This composite combines 678 separate images, taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time, and shows the Trifid (top right) and Lagoon nebulae. Image credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Releases Its First Images

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major new scientific facility jointly funded by NSF and the U.S. DoE’s Office of Science. The new images are a small...

Life reconstruction of Bolg amondol. Image credit: Cullen Townsend.

Armored, Large-Bodied Lizards Lived alongside Dinosaurs in Cretaceous North America

Jun 18, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

New fossilized specimens of monstersaurs — including a previously unknown genus and species, Bolg amondol — from the Kaiparowits Formation...

This conceptual illustration of a computer based on 2D molecules displays an actual scanning electron microscope image of the computer fabricated by Ghosh et al. Image credit: Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay / Penn State.

Researchers Develop World’s First Non-Silicon 2D Computer

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Silicon has enabled advancements in semiconductor technology through miniaturization, but scaling challenges necessitate the exploration of new materials....

Excavation of Fernatator prenticei’s skeleton. Note that the rostrum is incomplete, although it preserves an additional portion that has since been lost. T. Prentice at right, W. R. Wilson, general manager of the C.N.P. Coal Company, at left. Photo taken circa 1916, Elk River, between Morrissey and Fernie, British Columbia. Photographer unknown. Image credit: Massare et al.

Paleontologists Identify Fossil from British Columbia as Early Jurassic Ichthyosaur

Jun 16, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A partial skeleton found in the Fernie Formation in British Columbia, Canada, back in 1916 represents a new genus and species of an extinct marine reptile...

This artist’s conception shows denser regions of the cosmic web in blue and void areas in red. Image crdit: Jack Madden / IllustrisTNG / Ralf Konietzka / Liam Connor, CfA.

Astronomers Measure Distribution of Ordinary Matter across Cosmic Web

Jun 16, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have used Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to show that more than three-quarters of the Universe’s ordinary matter has been hiding in the thin gas...

Photograph of the bottom half of the Sun, with a highlighted square region around the Sun’s south pole. Taken in ultraviolet light, the image shows the hot gas in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, glowing yellow as it extends outwards in threads and loops from the Sun. Image credit: ESA / NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team / D. Berghmans, ROB.

Solar Orbiter Images Sun’s Poles

Jun 12, 2025 by News Staff

Any image we have ever seen of the Sun was taken from around the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, and all other operational spacecraft...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi.

New Species of Tyrannosauroid Dinosaur Discovered in Mongolia

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Scientifically named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly-identified tyrannosauroid species is the closest-known ancestor to Tyrannosaurus rex. Khankhuuluu...

An artist’s rendition of the YSES-1 system consisting of the Sun-like star in the center, YSES-1b and its dusty circumplanetary disk (right), and YSES-1c with silicate clouds in its atmosphere (left). Image credit: Ellis Bogat.

Webb Observes Two Young Exoplanets in YSES-1 System

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected silicate clouds in the atmosphere of the exoplanet YSES-1c and a circumplanetary...

Artistic reconstruction of Spathagnathus roeperi. Image credit: Alessio Ciaffi.

New Pterosaur Species Unearthed in Germany

Jun 9, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of gnathosaurine pterosaur, named Spathagnathus roeperi, from a fossilized specimen found in the...

An artist’s impression of Diamantinasaurus matildae (Judy). Image credit: Travis Tischler.

Paleontologists Find Fossilized Gut Contents of Sauropod Dinosaur

Jun 9, 2025 by News Staff

Diamantinasaurus matildae, a species of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 94 million years ago (mid-Cretaceous period), ate conifers, seed ferns, and...

Life reconstruction of Dacentrurus armatus, a sister species of Thyreosaurus atlasicus. Image credit: Sci.News.

Paleontologists Unveil Europe’s Most Complete Skull of Stegosaur

Jun 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have recovered the dinosaur skull material from beds of the Upper Jurassic Villar del Arzobispo Formation in Teruel, Spain, and confidently...

An artist’s reconstruction of Taleta taleta. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge.

New Duckbilled Dinosaur Species Discovered: Taleta taleta

Jun 2, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of small lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from two fossilized jaws found in Morocco. An artist’s...

This artistic impression depicts the stage at which WASP-121b accumulated most of its gas, as inferred from the latest results. Image credit: T. Müller, MPIA & HdA.

Webb Detects Silicon Monoxide in Atmosphere of Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide in the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b...