Ancient axolotl relative found near Mexico City was so unusual scientists named it after Quetzalcoatl
A newly identified ancient relative of the Mexican axolotl is giving scientists a rare window into the deep history of one of the world's…
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A newly identified ancient relative of the Mexican axolotl is giving scientists a rare window into the deep history of one of the world's…
The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is a walking biological contradiction. It moves with the confidence of a cat. It carries the elongated…
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Tyrannosaurus rex, widely regarded as one of the largest and most formidable land predators to have ever lived, may have grown far more…
A shift in balance at the frozen edges of Antarctica could disrupt the balance in all of the world's oceans — affecting weather patterns…
Fossilised bones and teeth dating back around 773,000 years, discovered in a cave in Morocco, are offering new insights into the early…
Researchers have discovered a disturbing link between shrinking Arctic ice and a crucial biological system that helps sequester carbon,…
Chinese researchers have discovered a key mechanism explaining how Earth may have stored enormous amounts of water in its early history,…
Scientists have uncovered what is now considered the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans, found in…
Iran-linked hacktivists claimed they broke into an Israeli nuclear scientist’s car and issued threats, earlier publishing what they said…
The oldest known RNA, a molecule essential to the majority of biological processes, was found in a woolly mammoth that lived in Siberia…
Scientists have been trying to figure out why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, gets so hot while its surface remains relatively cool…
Our oceans already contain a lot of plastic, and scientists have found an enzyme that enables bacteria to break it down and digest it.…
Analysis of feldspar crystals found in Australia's oldest magmatic rocks provides special information about the early formation of the…
Astronomers have observed, for the first time, a ring system forming and evolving around 2060 Chiron — a small icy body orbiting between…
Long-standing scientific worries may be surprisingly rekindled by new research from the University of Colorado Boulder, which indicates…
Far beyond the calm blue skies, countless rocky fragments drift silently through space — remnants from the birth of our solar system.…
Scientists have resurrected an ancient infectious lifeform that might ride on an animal and eventually start the next human pandemic,…
For decades, scientists have peered at Mars through telescopes and spacecraft, searching for traces of water, signs of life, and clues to…
The materials, known as MXenes, are made up of sheets only a few atoms thick, and they can interact with light in ways that could make…
Researchers have found a new Argentinean dinosaur that has strong claws and is consuming an old crocodile bone. The new discovery, which…
Australian astronomers have discovered a massive hydrogen gas bridge that connects two dwarf galaxies, providing new information about the…
In a huge medical breakthrough, scientists in China have reportedly invented a bone glue that sets within three minutes and can heal…
Scientists have found what they believe to be a second moon circling Quaoar, a far-off dwarf planet. This was an unexpected and…