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100,000-Year-Old Human Skull with Neanderthal-Like Inner Ear Found in China

A reconstruction of Neanderthal man. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.
Jul 8, 2014 by News Staff

Anthropologists are surprised by the presence of a unique inner-ear formation – long thought to occur only in Neanderthals – in an early human skull, dating back as far as 100,000 years and found at the Xujiayao site in Nihewan Basin, China. A reconstruction of Neanderthal man. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum. “The discovery places into question a whole suite of scenarios of later Pleistocene human population dispersals and interconnections...

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Pelagornis sandersi: Paleontologist Discovers Largest-Ever Flying Bird

Jul 8, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pelagornis sandersi – a newly discovered extinct species of bird that lived in what is now North America about 28 million years ago – is the largest...

This image shows a Sooty-capped bush tanager holding a stamen from Axinaea costaricensis in its beak. Note the pollen grains on the bird’s beak, front head, and cheeks. Image credit: Florian Etl.

Axinaea Flowers Blast Pollen at Bird Pollinators, Study

Jul 7, 2014 by News Staff

Plants in the Central and South American genus Axinaea have a unique and highly complex bird pollination system, according to a new study published in...

A still frame from the Patterson-Gimlin film, a famous motion picture of an unidentified subject filmed on October 20, 1967 by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin on Bluff Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River about 25 road miles north-west of Orleans, California.

Bigfoot, Yeti? Hair Samples Match DNA from Paleolithic Polar Bear, Known Mammals

Jul 7, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

The first ever systematic genetic analysis of evidence purporting to be from so-called anomalous primates such as yeti and migoi in the Himalaya, almasty...

Footprint of an adult hadrosaur found at Denali National Park, Alaska. Image credit: Anthony R. Fiorillo et al.

Remarkable New Dinosaur Tracksite Discovered in Alaska

Jul 7, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

 A new tracksite filled with hadrosaur footprints has been discovered in Denali National Park, Alaska, by a team of paleontologists led by Dr Yoshitsugu...

Titan's ice shell, which overlies a very salty ocean, varies in thickness around the moon, suggesting the crust is in the process of becoming rigid. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / University of Arizona / G. Mitri / University of Nantes.

Titan Harbors Very Salty Ocean, Say Scientists

Jul 6, 2014 by News Staff

A detailed analysis of gravity and topography data from Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, provides strong evidence that the ocean inside the moon might...

The upper image shows the location of six candidate exoplanets believed to orbit Gliese 581 as of 2010. Blue indicates candidate exoplanets in the habitable zone. The bottom image shows the location of the three exoplanets remaining in 2014. Image credit: NASA / Penn State University.

Astronomers: Two Goldilocks Exoplanets in Gliese 581 System Just Cosmic Illusion

Jul 5, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Paul Robertson of the Pennsylvania State University say that signals that were suspected to be coming from two Earth-like exoplanets...

Reconstruction of Archaeopteryx in flight. Image credit: R. Liebreich / Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology, Munich.

Archaeopteryx: New Specimen Reveals Amazing Details about Feathers of Oldest-Known Bird

Jul 4, 2014 by News Staff

German paleontologists led by Dr Oliver Rauhut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, have discovered a new specimen of Archaeopteryx...

Astronomers Discover Cold Terrestrial Exoplanet in Binary Star System

Jul 4, 2014 by News Staff

Using gravitational microlensing, a team of astronomers led by Prof Andrew Gould from Ohio State University has detected a cold terrestrial exoplanet orbiting...

Denisovans were probably dark-skinned, unlike the pale Neandertals. The picture shows a Neanderthal man. Image credit: Mauro Cutrona.

Tibetans Inherit Super-Athlete Gene from Denisovans

Jul 3, 2014 by News Staff

Tibetans were able to adapt to high altitudes thanks to what is sometimes called the super-athlete gene, or more prosaically, EPAS1, they acquired when...

This image shows the star-forming region Gum 15. Image credit: ESO.

Astronomers Zoom in on Star-Forming Region Gum 15

Jul 2, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile, has captured a new image of a glowing...

Macropus rufus by John Gould, 1863.

Red Kangaroos Use Tail as Powerful Fifth Leg

Jul 2, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Biology Letters shows that red kangaroos use their muscular tail just like a leg. The red kangaroo (Macropus rufus)...

Box rays, also known as Chilean devil rays, are actually among the deepest-diving ocean animals. Image credit: Jack Cook / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Box Rays are Deep Divers, Marine Biologists Say

Jul 2, 2014 by News Staff

Previously thought to be ocean surface dwellers, box rays (Mobula tarapacana) can dive to depths of 2,000 meters, according to a team of scientists from...

Triceratops models at JuraPark in Solec Kujawski, Poland. Image credit: CLI / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Research Provides New Insights into Evolution of Triceratops

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

A new study led by paleontologist John Scannella of Montana State University provides a detailed look at shifts in the morphology of Triceratops –...

This image shows the extant sand tiger shark Carcharias taurus. Image credit: Richard Ling / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shark Fossils Point to Brackish Arctic Ocean in Eocene

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

A new study on the teeth of extinct sand tiger sharks Striatolamia macrota and Carcharias spp. has provided the first estimate of Eocene (50 million years...

Pre-Columbian Native Americans Had Baby Boom in 500-1300 CE

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study conducted by Washington State University anthropologists Dr Tim Kohler and Dr Kelsey Reese, pre-Columbian Native Americans experienced...

This combination of three wavelengths of light from NASA's SDO shows one of the multiple jets that led to a series of slow coronal puffs on January 17, 2013. The light has been colorized in red, green and blue. Image credit: Nathalia Alzate / SDO.

NASA’s Solar Observatories Capture Unusual Eruptions on Sun

Jun 30, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using NASA’s three Sun-gazing spacecraft – Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory...

This artist's concept shows the LDSD test vehicle. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA Tests Flying Saucer-Shaped Vehicle for Future Mars Landing

Jun 30, 2014 by News Staff

After several weather delays, engineers from NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project have successfully tested a flying saucer-shaped spacecraft...

Artistic representation of Gliese 832 c against a stellar nebula background. mage credit: PHL / UPR Arecibo / NASA Hubble / Stellarium.

Gliese 832c: Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Discovered 16 Light-Years Away

Jun 29, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Robert Wittenmyer of the University of New South Wales has discovered a super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the...

The newly discovered volcanic complex Cas Maar: upper - the wide asymmetrical maar, about 900 m across; middle - the eastern maar-rim sequence showing two layers of spattery lava; bottom - lower sequence of spattery lavas (left) and upper sequence of spattery lavas and scoriaceous tuff showing sharp contact between the two materials (right). Image credit: J. A. Boyce et al.

Three Ancient Volcanoes Discovered in Australia

Jun 28, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists at Monash University have announced the discovery of three previously unrecorded ancient volcanoes in the Hamilton area of the Newer Volcanics...

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