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Ancient Polynesians and Native Americans Had Contact Long Before Europeans Arrived

Tahitian warrior dugouts from ‘Le Costume Ancien et Moderne’ by Giulio Ferrario, Milan, between 1816 and 1827.
Jul 14, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of genetic researchers has found conclusive evidence for a single contact between Polynesian individuals and a Native American group most closely related to the indigenous inhabitants of present-day Colombia around 1200 CE. Tahitian warrior dugouts from ‘Le Costume Ancien et Moderne’ by Giulio Ferrario, Milan, between 1816 and 1827. “The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American...

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Life reconstruction of Aratasaurus museunacionali. Image credit: Maurilio Oliveira.

New Feathered Carnivorous Dinosaur Found in Brazil

Jul 14, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of coelurosaurian dinosaur, Aratasaurus museunacionali, from the Romualdo Formation...

This life-size model of Trierarchuncus prairiensis was sculpted by Boban Filipovic, a paleontologist and artist from Serbia, and is on display at Badlands Dinosaur Museum, Dickinson, ND. Image credit: Boban Filipovic / Badlands Dinosaur Museum.

New Species of Hook-Handed Dinosaur Uncovered in Montana

Jul 13, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of alvarezsaurid dinosaur that lived approximately 66 million years ago (Cretaceous period) has been unearthed in the Hell Creek Formation...

Siraj & Loeb explore the possibility that accretion flares resulting from the tidal disruption of small Oort Cloud bodies by a putative primordial black hole could power an observable optical signal that could be searched for with the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Image credit: Sci-News.com / Zdeněk Bardon / ESO.

Astronomers Develop Method to Detect Tiny Black Holes in Outskirts of Our Solar System

Jul 13, 2020 by News Staff

Amir Siraj and Professor Avi Loeb from the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University have developed a new method to search for primordial black holes...

Large Dolphin from Oligocene Epoch was Fast-Swimming Apex Predator

Jul 10, 2020 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found and described the first nearly complete skeleton of Ankylorhiza tiedemani, an extinct large dolphin that lived about 24 million...

An artist’s impression of the giant dormouse Leithia melitensis (left) and its nearest living relative the garden dormouse (right). Image credit: James Sadler, University of York.

Enormous Dormice Once Roamed Mediterranean Islands

Jul 9, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists from the UK, Italy and Switzerland has created the first digital reconstruction of the skull of Leithia melitensis,...

Two Interacting Gas Giants Orbit Sun-Like Star WASP-148

Jul 9, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the SuperWASP-North telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain, and the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence,...

Life reconstruction of the Alaskan saurornitholestine dinosaur in its environment. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin.

Paleontologists Find Fossil of 70-Million-Year-Old Polar Raptor

Jul 8, 2020 by News Staff

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized jawbone of a juvenile dromaeosaurid (raptor) dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago in what is now northern...

This is an artist's reconstruction of Homo erectus. Image credit: Yale University.

Homo erectus Had Stocky Body Shape

Jul 8, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has created the first 3D reconstruction of the ribcage of the Turkana Boy, a skeleton of the juvenile Homo erectus...

Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely. Image credit: Alex Boersma.

Tiny Dinosaur Relative Roamed Triassic Madagascar

Jul 7, 2020 by News Staff

A new genus and species of ornithodiran — an early relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs — that lived around 237 million years ago (Triassic...

An artist’s impression of the super-Neptune exoplanet TOI-1728b. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Astronomers Find Largest Super-Neptune Yet around Red Dwarf Star

Jul 6, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered and confirmed a warm super-Neptune...

Structure of the upper jaw and lower jaw of the ringed caecilian (Siphonops annulatus). Image credit: Mailho-Fontana et al, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101234.

Researchers Find Snake-Like Venom Glands in Caecilian Amphibians

Jul 3, 2020 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Brazil and the United States has found the specialized oral glands in the jaws of the ringed caecilian (Siphonops annulatus),...

X(6900), a tetraquark particle composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks. Image credit: CERN.

CERN Physicists Discover Four-Charm-Quark Particle

Jul 3, 2020 by News Staff

Physicists from CERN’s LHCb Collaboration have discovered a new tetraquark particle, named X(6900), composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks. X(6900),...

Branched flow pattern shown on top of the interference color pattern generated by weak white light, making it possible to observe the potential landscape together with the branched flow. Image credit: Patsyk et al, doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2376-8.

Physicists Observe Branched Flow of Light

Jul 3, 2020 by News Staff

Physicists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Central Florida have experimentally observed optical branched flow in...

An artist’s impression of NGTS-4b and its star. Image credit: Mark Garlick / University of Warwick.

Remnant Core of Giant Planet Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star TOI-849

Jul 2, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered planetary core, named TOI-849b, is a gas giant that was either stripped of its gaseous atmosphere or that failed to form one in its...

The Paleolithic settlement at Abu Hureyra in what is now Syria may have been destroyed 12,800 years ago because of a comet. Image credit: Jennifer Rice, Comet Research Group.

Cometary Debris May Have Destroyed Paleolithic Settlement 12,800 Years Ago

Jul 2, 2020 by News Staff

Fragments of an exploding short-period comet may have caused destruction of the Paleolithic settlement at Abu Hureyra in northern Syria about 12,800 years...

This illustration shows how the ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b sees its host star. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Chris Smith, USRA.

Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b Has Two Summers and Two Winters Every 36 Hours

Jul 1, 2020 by News Staff

New observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to improve their understanding of the bizarre environment...

A group of Copepteryx, plotopterid birds that lived in Japan between 28.4 and 23 million years ago. Image credit: Mark Witton.

Giant Penguin-Like Seabirds Lived in Northern Hemisphere About 30 Million Years Ago

Jul 1, 2020 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered striking similarities between the fossilized bones of giant penguins that lived 62 million years ago in what is now New...

Giant Starspots May Explain Bizarre Dimming of Betelgeuse

Jun 30, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters points to the changes in the photosphere of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse as the source...

This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in PHL 293B could have looked like before its mysterious disappearance. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO.

Massive Variable Star Mysteriously Disappears from Distant Dwarf Galaxy

Jun 30, 2020 by News Staff

Using the X-SHOOTER and the ESPRESSO (Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet- and Stable Spectroscopic Observation) instruments on ESO’s Very Large...

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