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Massive New Reef System Found at Amazon River Mouth

The Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean and creates a plume where freshwater and salt water mix. Image credit: Lance Willis.
Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River by an international group of researchers from Brazil and the United States. The Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean and creates a plume where freshwater and salt water mix. Image credit: Lance Willis. The team, led by Dr. Rodrigo Moura from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, reported their discovery on April 22 in the journal Science Advances. “As large rivers empty into...

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A map showing the migration of dinosaurs from Europe during the Early Cretaceous. Image credit: Alex Dunhill / University of Leeds.

Dinosaurs Left Europe during Early Cretaceous, Says New Study

Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by University of Leeds scientist Dr. Alexander Dunhill has used the so-called ‘Network Theory’ to visually depict the...

This Hubble image shows the massive star cluster NGC 339. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Sees Massive Star Cluster in Small Magellanic Cloud

Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of the star cluster NGC 339. This Hubble image shows the massive star cluster NGC 339....

Venus in real colors, processed from Mariner 10 images. Image credit: Mattias Malmer / NASA.

ESA’s Venus Express Finds Atmospheric Gravity Waves in Venusian Polar Atmosphere

Apr 23, 2016 by News Staff

Strong atmospheric gravity waves dominate the polar regions of Venus’ atmosphere, according to measurements made by ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft...

A number of bird-like dinosaurs reconstructed in their Cretaceous environment. Middle ground and background: two different dromaeosaurid species hunting vertebrate prey (a lizard and a toothed bird). Foreground: hypothetical toothless bird closely related to the earliest modern birds. Image credit: Danielle Dufault.

Paleontologists: Seed Diet May Have Played Key Role in Survival of Early Birds

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

Ecological changes following the dinosaur-ravaging Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago may have been more detrimental to meat-eating bird-like dinosaurs,...

The medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) diverged in beak size from the large ground finch (Geospiza magnirostris) on Daphne Major Island, Galápagos following a severe drought. Image credit: Peter R. Grant.

Genomic Analysis of Darwin’s Finches Identifies Gene behind ‘Evolution in Action’

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University has identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent...

NGC 4111. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Spots Elegant Galaxy

Apr 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the beautiful and elegant galaxy NGC 4111. NGC 4111. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy...

Baby Rapetosaurus krausei is compared to neonatal mammals: the dinosaur was only 14 inches tall at the hip, and weighed around 40 kg when it died a few weeks after hatching. This body size is similar to that of some large-bodied mammalian newborns: black rhinoceros calves are 35-45 kg at birth and stand a little taller at the shoulder than baby Rapetosaurus krausei at 25.6 inches (65 cm); African elephants are close to 39 inches (1 m) high at the hip and weigh between 90 and 120 kg at birth; hippo newborns are the closest in both height and mass to the specimen of Rapetosaurus krausei, checking in between 24-45 kg at birth with a shoulder height of 14.6 inches (37 cm). Image credit: D. Vital.

Titanosaurs Hatched with Adult-Like Proportions, Paleontologists Say

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

A rare specimen of the titanosaur Rapetosaurus krausei from the Cretaceous of Madagascar sheds light on early life in the smallest stage of one of the...

This Hubble image, released to celebrate its 26th year in orbit, shows the Bubble Nebula, an emission nebula located 7,100 light-years away. This image allows us to fully appreciate the almost perfectly symmetrical shell which gives the nebula its name. The bright star visible just to the left of center is the Wolf-Rayet star SAO 20575. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team.

Hubble Celebrates 26th Anniversary with Incredible Image of Bubble Nebula

Apr 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

In celebration of the 26th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured an amazing image of the Bubble Nebula...

Cheesmaking, Tacuinum Sanitatis (XIV century).

Analysis of Pottery Reveals First Cheesemaking in Swiss Alps in the First Millennium BC

Apr 21, 2016 by News Staff

The first evidence that humans in the Swiss Alps made cheese in the 1st millennium BC is described in research by an international team of archeologists,...

The skull of Gryposuchus pachakamue, a proto-Amazonian gavialoid from the Miocene lakes and swamps of the Pebas Mega-Wetland System, in dorsal, ventral, and lateral view. Scale bar - 5 cm. Image credit: Salas-Gismondi R. et al.

Discovery of Miocene Crocodilian Suggests Parallel Evolution of Protruding Eyes

Apr 21, 2016 by News Staff

Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...

A white-headed capuchin (Cebus capucinus) in Costa Rica. Image credit: Geoff Gallice / CC BY 2.0.

Panamacebus transitus: First North American Monkey Fossils Unearthed in Panama

Apr 21, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Seven fossil teeth recovered from the Miocene layers of the Las Cascadas Formation in the Panama Canal Basin are the first evidence of a monkey on the...

This picture shows four views of the 10 December 2013 solar flare from SDO, STEREO, and Hinode. The current sheet is a long, thin structure, especially visible in the views on the left. Image credit: NASA / JAXA / SDO / STEREO / Hinode / Zhu et al.

Three Solar Observatories Hone in on Powerful Solar Flare

Apr 20, 2016 by News Staff

During a December 2013 solar flare, three solar-watching satellites — NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the agency’s Solar and Terrestrial...

Reconstruction of the giant, short-faced North American bear Arctodus simus. Image credit: Daniel Reed / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Convergent Evolution of Giant Bears in the Americas

Apr 20, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by Dr. Kieren Mitchell of the University of Adelaide sheds new light on the evolution of what are believed to be the largest bears that ever...

A woman wearing an EEG headset. Image credit: Jonathan Cohen / Binghamton University.

Neuroscientists Can Identify You by Your ‘Brainprint’ with 100% Accuracy

Apr 20, 2016 by News Staff

A novel technology being developed by a team of researchers at Binghamton University has delivered outstanding results over the ability to identify persons...

This image of Haulani Crater was acquired by Dawn from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 km). The bluish material visible here indicates relatively fresh material on the surface. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI.

Latest Images from NASA’s Dawn Orbiter Show Ceres’ Bright Craters

Apr 20, 2016 by News Staff

New images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from a distance of 240 miles (385 km) show two prominent craters on the surface of Ceres: Oxo and Haulani. This...

Ashkenazi Jews of 19th century Eastern Europe portrayed in Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878 (from Jewish Art, p. 199).

Yiddish Language was Invented by Slavo-Iranian Jewish Merchants, Scientists Say

Apr 19, 2016 by News Staff

A new tool called the Geographic Population Structure (GPS), which converts DNA data into its ancestral coordinates, has pinpointed origin of Yiddish speakers,...

A pack of gray wolves visits a scent station in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The photograph was taken by one of the remote camera stations and was triggered by the wolves’ movement. Image credit: Sarah Webster / Jim Beasley / National Geographic.

Camera Study Reveals Wildlife Abundance in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Apr 19, 2016 by News Staff

New research published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment documents animal species prevalent in the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion...

Torvosaurus gurneyi. Image credit: © Sergey Krasovskiy.

Dinosaurs Were in Long-Term Evolutionary Decline before Chicxulub Impact

Apr 19, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and which has been led by University of Reading scientists...

This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by Hubble of the Crab Nebula, a 6-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Hester / A. Loll, Arizona State University.

Interstellar Iron Found on Moon’s Surface: Confirmation of Supernovae in Solar Neighborhood

Apr 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Gunther Korschinek from the Technical University of Munich, has detected radioactive iron-60 in samples...

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