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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Early Triassic Coelacanth

Whiteia anniae in right lateral view, holotype. Image credit: Dai et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w.
Oct 27, 2025 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus Whiteia on the basis of two fossilized specimens. This discovery extends the spatial range of Whiteia in the Early Triassic, and documents the oldest species of the genus in Asia, predating the previously oldest record of whiteiid coelacanths in this continent by 9 million years. Whiteia anniae in right lateral view, holotype. Image credit: Dai et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w. “Coelacanths...

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An artist’s impression of the binary stellar system TOI-2267. Image credit: Mario Sucerquia, University of Grenoble Alpes.

Astronomers Find Three Earth-Sized Exoplanets in Compact Binary System

Oct 27, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The binary stellar system TOI-2267 likely harbors two warm Earth-sized exoplanets and an additional Earth-sized candidate, according to a new paper published...

An artist’s impression of Wadisuchus kassabi. Image credit: Nathan Dehaut / MUVP.

80-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Long-Snouted Crocodile Unearthed in Egypt

Oct 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered two partial skulls and three partial jaws from an early-diverging dyrosaurid crocodyliform in the layers of the Quseir...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4571, a spiral galaxy some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / F. Belfiore / J. Lee / PHANGS-HST Team.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stunning New View of NGC 4571

Oct 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed new look at the star-studded spiral galaxy NGC 4571. This Hubble image shows...

Life reconstruction of the St Bathans bowerbird (Aeviperditus gracilis). Image credit: Sasha Votyakova / Te Papa / CC BY 4.0.

Tiny Fossil Reveals Previously Unknown Songbird Lineage from New Zealand

Oct 27, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found the 2.9-cm-long fossilized foot bone of a possible bowerbird species at the Miocene locality of St Bathans in Aotearoa New Zealand. Life...

The right lower canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont from the Tremembé Formation, Brazil. Scale bars - 5 mm in (A-E) and 20 mm in (H). Image credit: Rangel et al., doi: 10.4072/rbp.2025.2.0534.

Fossil of Carnivorous ‘Swamp Monster’ Found in Brazil

Oct 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized lower right canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont in the Taubaté Basin of Brazil. The right lower...

Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus annectens. Image credit: Dani Navarro.

Two New Specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens Preserve Fine Details of Scales and Hooves

Oct 23, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have examined two exceptional specimens of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens. Using an array of imaging...

Flynn et al. analyzed Alamosaurus fossils found in northwestern New Mexico and discovered these dinosaurs were very different but the same age as dinosaurs found further north in Wyoming and Montana. Image credit: Natalia Jagielska.

Latest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Lived in Vibrant, Regionally Distinct Communities

Oct 23, 2025 by News Staff

The most iconic mass extinction in Earth history occurred around 66 million years ago, as rapid environmental destruction led to the extinction of around...

An artist’s conception of the Gliese 251 system, showing Gliese 251c (left), its host star (right), and the previously-discovered planet Gliese 251b (middle). Image credit: Michael Marcheschi / m2design.

Super-Earth Candidate Found in Habitable Zone of Gliese 251

Oct 23, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Gliese 251 is an early red dwarf star and the 74th closest star system to our Sun. An artist’s conception of the Gliese 251 system, showing Gliese 251c...

Megafaunal animals from Mammoth Cave about 50,000 years ago: the giant long-beaked echidna Murrayglossus hacketti, the giant kangaroo Procoptodon browneorum, the giant diprotodontid Zygomaturus trilobus, and the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Image credit: Peter Schouten.

Australia’s First Peoples Were Fossil Collectors, New Study Suggests

Oct 22, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower leg bone) of a now-extinct,...

The model proposed by Eto et al. suggests a brief knot-dominated era, when these tangled energy fields outweighed everything else, a scenario that could be probed through gravitational-wave signals. Image credit: Muneto Nitta / Hiroshima University.

Cosmic ‘Knots’ May Have Briefly Dominated Newborn Universe, Physicists Say

Oct 22, 2025 by News Staff

Knots emerge in various fields of mathematics and physics today. A team of physicists from Japan and Germany suggests that, during the early Universe,...

Thornton et al. investigated the solid urine of more than 20 reptile species. Image credit: Thornton et al., doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c10139.

New Research Reveals How Reptiles ‘Package Up and Pee’ Crystalline Waste

Oct 22, 2025 by News Staff

Both avian and non-avian reptiles excrete excess nitrogen in solid form — colloquially termed ‘urates’ — as an evolutionary adaptation...

An artist’s impression of the SVS 13A system. Image credit: NSF / AUI / NSF’s NRAO / P.Vosteen.

ALMA Captures Spiral-Shaped Gas Streamer Guided by Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Region

Oct 21, 2025 by News Staff

This streamer of gas is channeling matter from the surrounding cloud of a star-forming region in Perseus directly onto a newborn binary star system called...

Circles indicate distinct SolarBird app observations submitted on April 8, 2024. Image credit: Aguilar et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adx3025.

Total Solar Eclipses Can Trigger Dawn Behavior in Birds, Scientists Say

Oct 21, 2025 by News Staff

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more...

NIRC2 image of J1446 taken in August 2023; the white arrow indicates the location of the new companion J1446B. Image credit: Uyama et al., doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae08b6.

Astronomers Directly Image Brown Dwarf around Nearby Red Dwarf Star

Oct 21, 2025 by News Staff

Using a combination of the Subaru Telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory, ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have imaged a brown-dwarf companion around the...

An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, a large liquid methane sea on Titan. Image credit: NASA’s John Glenn Research Center.

Unexpected Mixture of Hydrogen Cyanide and Hydrocarbons May Exist on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Oct 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Titan offers great motivation for the detailed study of organic chemistry in unconventional conditions. Nonpolar hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane...

Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev.

Paranthropus boisei was Capable of Tool Making, New Fossil Suggests

Oct 21, 2025 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have unearthed and examined a hominin partial skeleton that includes hand and foot bones unambiguously associated with skull elements...

Life reconstruction of Brontotholus harmoni. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0.

New Species of Dome-Headed Dinosaur Identified in Montana

Oct 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from five fossil specimens found in the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine...

Lead exposure to humans in modern times versus our ancestors. Image credit: J. Gregory / Mount Sinai Health System.

Lead Exposure May Have Influenced Evolution of Human Brain, Behavior, and Development of Language

Oct 20, 2025 by News Staff

Several hominids — Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, early Homo sp., Gigantopithecus blacki, Pongo sp., Papio sp., Homo neanderthalensis,...

This view shows the entire sky at energies greater than 1 GeV based on five years of data from the LAT instrument on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; the most prominent feature is the bright band of diffuse glow along the map’s center, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / DOE / Fermi LAT Collaboration.

Milky Way’s Galactic Center Excess is Due to Dark Matter Annihilation: Study

Oct 20, 2025 by News Staff

The Galactic Center excess is an unexpected concentration of gamma-rays emerging from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. This view shows the entire sky...

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