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A new species of early crocodyloid crocodilian being named Asiatosuchus oenotriensis has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad...

A new study, published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, helps resolve one of the longest controversies in paleoanthropology: when did early hominins...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured a new infrared image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. This...

Paleontologists in the United States have described a new genus and species of extinct crocodile relative based on a partially articulated skeleton found...

Astronomers have released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238. This Hubble image shows...

Paleontologists in Pakistan have unveiled a new genus and species of prehistoric giraffe relative from the Miocene epoch. Life reconstruction of ancient...

The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the hypothesized common ancestor from which all modern cellular life, from single celled organisms like bacteria...

In a new study, planetary scientists found strong similarities between soils found in Gale Crater on Mars and those of Canada’s Newfoundland, a cold...

New research shows that recurrent episodes of gene flow, beginning 250,000 to 200,000 years ago, affected the genomes and biology of both modern humans...

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that always travel faster than light. Until recently, they were generally regarded as entities that did not fit into...

Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere say they have discovered subfossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a female woolly mammoth...

The newly-discovered structures predate the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu by roughly 3,500 years, and were made long before the Inca and their predecessors,...

Using more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomer have found evidence for a 20,000-solar-mass black hole at the center of...

A new genus and species of iguanodontian dinosaur being named Comptonatus chasei has been described by University of Portsmouth Ph.D. student Jeremy Lockwood...

The Antikythera mechanism is a multi-component device recovered from a shipwreck close to the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901. It is believed to be...

A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be...

LHS 1140b is the second-closest temperate transiting exoplanet to Earth with a temperature low enough to support surface liquid water. LHS 1140b may be...

Dingoes (Canis dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depend on understanding...

Thescelosaurines were a group of small to medium-sized, plant-eating dinosaurs that inhabited North America during the Late Cretaceous epoch. The newly-discovered...