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Thin sheets of ice push rocks across a dry lake in Death Valley when conditions are just right. Image credit: Norris RD et al.

Death Valley Sailing Stones Caught in Action for First Time

Sep 14, 2014 by News Staff

After more than seventy years of attempts to solve the mystery of Death Valley’s sailing stones, U.S. researchers led by Dr Brian Jackson of Boise...

Ikrandraco: Newly-Discovered Pterosaur Named after Dragons from Avatar Movie

Sep 13, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of flying reptile that lived in what is now China during the Cretaceous period, about...

The only known dinosaur adapted to life in water, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus swam the rivers of North Africa about 95 million years ago. Image credit: © Davide Bonadonna / National Geographic magazine.

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus: Paleontologists Unveil First Semiaquatic Dinosaur

Sep 12, 2014 by News Staff

Newly-discovered 95-million-year-old fossils of the carnivorous dinosaur Spinosaurus aegyptiacus are the most compelling evidence to date of a dinosaur...

Huaridelphis raimondii, with an outline of the head and potential fish prey. Image credit: © G.Bianucci.

Huaridelphis raimondii: New Miocene Species of Dolphin Discovered in Peru

Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

Peruvian and European paleontologists have described a new fossil species of dolphin that lived in what is now Peru during the Miocene period, about 16...

This is an artist's impression of SN 1993J. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI.

Hubble Helps Astronomers Solve Mystery of Supernova SN 1993J

Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Wide-Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have finally discovered a companion...

This artist's conception shows W0855, the coldest known brown dwarf. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Penn State University.

Water Ice Clouds Found in Atmosphere of Brown Dwarf Just 7.2 Light-Years Away

Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Jacqueline Faherty from Carnegie Institution of Washington and American Museum of Natural History have discovered evidence of water...

Female and male Northern white-cheeked gibbon. Image credit: Linda, Jinterwas / CC BY 2.0.

Scientists Sequence Gibbon Genome

Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

A large team of genetic researchers from the United States, Europe and China has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of the Northern white-cheeked...

Mammals in a Jurassic forest: the three animals on the left side represent the three newly discovered species - Shenshou lui, Xianshou linglong, and Xianshou songae; the other two represent a gliding species and another euharamiyidan, respectively, which were described earlier. Image credit: © Zhao Chuang.

Three Jurassic Squirrel Species Discovered in China

Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

A group of paleontologists led by Dr Jin Meng of American Museum of Natural History has discovered three squirrel-like mammals that lived in what is now...

STM image reveals honeycomb structure of germanene. Image credit: M E Dávila et al.

Germanene: European Scientists Synthesize New Cousin of Graphene

Sep 10, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Spain, Germany and France has managed to synthesize graphene’s cousin – an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional material...

17 Previously Unknown Monuments Discovered around Stonehenge

Sep 10, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Birmingham University-led Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project have discovered 17 previously unknown archaeological monuments around...

An artist's conception of the young massive star HD100546 and its surrounding disk. A planet forming in the disk has cleared the disk within 13 astronomical units of the star, a distance comparable to that of Saturn from our Sun. As gas and dust flows from the circumstellar disk to the planet, this material surrounds the planet as a circumplanetary disk (inset). These rotating disks are believed to be the birthplaces of planetary moons, such as the Galilean moons that orbit Jupiter. Image credit: P. Marenfeld / NOAO / AURA / NSF.

Astronomers Spot Birth of Giant Exoplanet around HD 100546

Sep 9, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers headed by Dr Sean Brittain of Clemson University have discovered evidence of a huge extrasolar planet forming around the young star HD 100546. An...

The obverse and reverse surfaces of a 5,150-year-old siltstone ceremonial palette discovered at Hierakonpolis, Egypt. The object is surmounted and framed by two wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) clasping one another’s paws; other species include ostrich, hartebeest, wildebeest, ibex, oryx, and giraffe; some fictitious animals are also depicted, including serpent-necked panthers, or ‘serpopards,’ and a plausible griffin. Image credit: Ashmolean Museum.

Ancient Egyptian Artworks Help Create 6,000-Year Record of Local Mammal Extinctions

Sep 9, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Thilo Gross of the University of Bristol has combined depictions of lions, wild dogs, elephants and other creatures from...

This artist's rendition shows likely paleoenvironment of Rukwatitan bisepultus. Image credit: Mark Witton / University of Portsmouth.

Rukwatitan bisepultus: New Titanosaur Discovered in Tanzania

Sep 9, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived during the middle of the Cretaceous period, about 100 million years...

This image shows the Trelleborg-type Viking fortress of Fyrkat. Image credit: Heritage Agency of Denmark.

New Viking Ring Fortress Discovered in Denmark

Sep 8, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists led by Dr Nanna Holm of the Danish Castle Center have discovered a massive Viking ring fortress near Køge, a seaport about 39 km southwest...

Dendrogramma: Two Unclassifiable Deep-Sea Animals Discovered off Australia

Sep 7, 2014 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, two species of sea-dwelling, mushroom-shaped organisms discovered off Australia...

1,500-year-old ‘Last Supper’ papyrus from Egypt. Image credit: Roberta Mazza / University of Manchester.

1,500-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Papyrus Casts New Light on Early Christianity

Sep 6, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Roberta Mazza at the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute has discovered what she says is the world’s oldest surviving document...

Banded archerfish (Toxotes jaculatrix) jetting water at an insect. Image credit: Ingo Rischawy / Schuster lab / University of Bayreuth.

Excellent Sharpshooting Skills of Archerfish Amaze Ichthyologists

Sep 6, 2014 by News Staff

According to a duo of German ichthyologists reporting in the Current Biology, archerfish are much more adaptable and skillful target-shooters than previously...

This false-color scanning electron micrograph shows Escherichia coli. Image credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories / NIAID / NIH.

Escherichia coli Engineered to Produce Renewable Propane

Sep 6, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Finland and the United Kingdom has engineered the common gut bacteria, Escherichia coli, to generate renewable propane. This...

Berries of Coffea canephora. Image credit: © 2010. Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Genetic Researchers Sequence Genome of Robusta Coffee

Sep 5, 2014 by News Staff

A large team of scientists led by Dr Philippe Lashermes of the French Institute of Research for Development has generated a high-quality draft genome of...