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An international team of scientists has found the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors at the site of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern...

A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive...

Researchers from Auburn University have discovered a new remarkable species of suckermouth armoured catfish in southern Ecuador. Dorsal view of Cordylancistrus...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned new images of Saturn’s moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione. The Cassini spacecraft took this raw image...

Dr. Robert Benfer of the University of Missouri has discovered numerous earthen animals rising above the coastal plains of Peru, including a giant condor,...

An international team of astronomers has for the first time produced an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way. Detail of a star-forming...

A team of researchers from the Nottingham Trent University has suggested that a 4000-year-old unique triangular shaped monolith, known as the Gardom’s...

An international team of Ethiopian and American scientists conducting paleontological field research in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia...

An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...

An international team of researchers has found that bottlenose dolphins from Shark Bay, Western Australia, form complex male alliances in an open social...

An international team of paleontologists led by Dr. Xiaolin Wang of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has discovered a new...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras. An...

An international team of researchers has proposed to conduct a large-scale project in Australia, where populations of some native predators are allowed...

An international team of geologists led by Dr. Eric Roberts of Australia’s James Cook University has suggested that the Great Rift Valley of East...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Susan Rule of the Australian National University has found that human arrival rather than climate change caused the extinction...

A team of researchers from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas has discovered an intriguing new scorpion in Death Valley National Park. The new scorpion...

A team of researchers has discovered a new and unusual wasp species during an expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. An adult male Megalara garuda...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of fossil scops owl, the first extinct bird on the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal. Illustration...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned new images of the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta, highlighting unusual geologic features, some of which...