Science

New Enantiornithine Bird Joins Australia’s Sparse Fossi...

Tenuicruris piscanexum is only the second Cretaceous bird species named from th...

120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Pushes Back Origin of Marsu...

A new species of deltatheroidan mammal from China may be the oldest confirmed a...

Chemosymbiosis between Animals and Microbes May Predate...

A tubular marine creature that lived on the seafloor more than 540 million year...

Astronomers Detect Radio Signal from Beta Pictoris b

For the first time, astronomers have directly detected radio emission from a pl...

Sugar Molecule Made by Gut Bacterium Can Shrink Viscera...

Clostridium immunis, a human gut bacterium, secretes a large sugar molecule tha...

Trogons Once Had Ordinary Feet, 55-Million-Year-Old Fos...

A newly described trogon species from the Early Eocene of Denmark, one of the e...

Researchers Reconstruct Face of Oldest Known Homo sapiens

Scientists have created a digital facial approximation of the Jebel Irhoud homi...

Bats Originated in Europe, Genetic and Fossil Evidence ...

Bats make up more than one fifth of all living mammal species, yet where and wh...

Fossilized Vomit Reveals How Plesiosaurs Dined on Juras...

Dr. Dirk Knaust, a geologist with the Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA, has...

Geothermal Amoeba Found Thriving at 63 Degrees Celsius ...

Microbiologists have discovered a new species of heat-loving amoeba that divide...

Titanosaurs Nested Far South of Equator, Fossil Eggshel...

Paleontologists working in Patagonia, Argentina, have uncovered fossilized eggs...

Mysterious Rock Formation in Jezero Crater Reveals Mars...

Using data collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover, planetary scientists have re...

New Therizinosaurian Dinosaur Unearthed in China

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of therizinosaur based o...

Ice Age Artists Took Cues from Ivory Itself, 18,000-Yea...

Roughly 18,000 years ago, in what is now northern Ukraine, artists carved small...

Hubble Spots Spiral Galaxy Rotating Out of Sync with It...

A barred spiral galaxy called NGC 4698 has a bizarre structure in which its cen...

Human Brain is Two Organs Fused Together, Study Suggests

Stanford University neuroscientist Kyle Loh and colleagues challenge this view,...