Paleontologists from the United States and Australia have discovered and described a new, nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a foot-propelled diver bird species that lived in Antarctica during the ...

Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through their mouths to feed on small marine life, once teemed in Earth’s oceans. In the 20th century, 1.5 million baleen whales were ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, shrieks and squeaks in humpback whale song recordings collected over eight years in New Caledonia. “We found ...

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the ...

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis), an economically important crop marketed for the elaboration of mate, the third-most widely ...

Prionailurus kurteni lived in what is now southern China during the Middle Pleistocene, approximately 300,000 years ago. “Southeastern Asia and southern China stand out as hotpots of Felidae diversity ...

Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System. “Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ...

A new Hubble image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. “The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 ...

“The bond between carbon and fluorine atoms in PFAS is very strong, so most microbes cannot use it as an energy source,” said Professor Diana Aga, a researcher at the University at Buffalo and SUNY.

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur based on depictions of the now-destroyed specimen from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt. The ...

The newly-discovered hadrosaurid footprints date back to approximately 70 million years ago (Cretaceous period). One of them is around 92 cm (3 feet) across, making it one of the largest hadrosaurid ...

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, paleontologists analyzed the fossilized remains of the alvarezsaurid dinosaur Bonapartenykus from the Allen Formation of Patagonia. Their results shed ...