Science

Ornithologists Identify Cryptic New Bird Species in Japan

Genetic and acoustic evidence show that the rare Ijima’s leaf warbler (Phyllosc...

Oviraptors May Have Needed the Sun to Hatch Their Eggs

New experiments indicate bird-like oviraptorid dinosaurs could not fully warm t...

DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Aste...

Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173)...

Early Triassic Cyclidan Crustacean Had Powerful Jaws

Paleontologists have described a new species of enigmatic cyclidan crustacean o...

Neanderthals May Have Hunted Giant Elephants that Roame...

Chemical clues preserved in the teeth of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxod...

New Kind of Planet May Lurk in Milky Way: Extreme World...

New observations of L 98-59d, a member of the five-planet system L 98-59, sugge...

Tropical Bush Cricket’s Hot-Pink Phase May Be Nature’s ...

Entomologists in Panama have observed a leaf-masquerading katydid species that ...

Supergiant Star Makes Rare Leap to Hotter Phase, Astron...

Long-term observations of WOH G64 -- once considered the most extreme red super...

Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions ...

Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers...

New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Aust...

Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unk...

Early Howler Monkeys Adapted to Eating Leaves 13 Millio...

Fossil jaws of the ancient monkey species Stirtonia victoriae from the La Victo...

Astronomers Witness Aftermath of Catastrophic Planetary...

An unusual flickering of a young F-type star called Gaia20ehk and an expanding ...

New Research Links Daily Multivitamins to Slower Biolog...

In a randomized clinical trial of older adults, researchers found that taking m...

Astronomers Observe Neutron Star Crash in Unexpected En...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have t...

Study: Raccoons Don’t Just Solve Puzzles for Food, They...

In a new study led by University of British Columbia Ph.D. student Hannah Grieb...

275-Million-Year-Old Amphibian Relative with Twisted Ja...

A new genus and species of archaic stem tetrapod from the Permian period has be...