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Australopithecus Males Were Much Larger than Females, P...

Two extinct hominins, Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus...

New Research Sheds Light on Evolution of Lava Planets

Lava planets are rocky exoplanets that orbit so close to their host star that t...

Underground Microbial Life Could Survive on Mars, Europ...

Radiolysis induced by Galactic cosmic rays could provide a viable energy source...

95-Million-Year-Old Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in...

Paleontologists in Patagonia, Argentina, have unearthed a portion of a postcran...

New Study Provides First Precise Explanation for How Li...

In a new paper, Penn State Professor Victor Pasko and his colleagues described ...

Paleontologists Discover First Evidence of Multispecies...

Paleontologists say they have discovered the 76-million-year-old footprints of ...

Study Finds Link between Low Vitamin D Levels and Incre...

In a new analysis of data from the UK Biobank, vitamin D deficiency was associa...

Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 1309

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubbl...

Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Caught Eating Star in NGC ...

The newly-discovered intermediate-mass black hole, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, reside...

Cambrian Nectocaridids are Early Descendants of Arrow W...

Nectocaridids -- enigmatic Paleozoic animals with a controversial position -- w...

Warming Climate Sparks Innovative Wildlife Protection M...

Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society have documented a remarkable ...

Crested Diapsid Reptile from Middle Triassic Shakes Up ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Triassic drepanosauro...

Astronomers Confirm Fifth Exoplanet in L 98-59 System

Named L 98-59f, this planet is a non-transiting super-Earth with a minimal mass...

Long-Misidentified Fossil is First Known Nonmarine Lobo...

Palaeocampa anthrax most likely inhabited a freshwater environment, contesting ...

Arachnids Originated in Cambrian Seas, New Research Sug...

Paleontologists have analyzed the fossilized features of the brain and central ...

New Isotope of Aluminum Discovered: Aluminum-20

The previously unknown nucleus aluminum-20 has been observed for the first time...