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 ...

One of these exoplanets, HD 20794d, is likely to be a rocky planet in the habitable zone of its parent star, the G-dwarf HD 20794. “HD 20794, around which HD 20794d orbits, is not an ordinary star,” ...

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have identified nine rings — more than previously detected by any ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems for approximately 160 million years, but their biogeographic origin remains poorly understood. The earliest unequivocal dinosaur fossils appear in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A type Ia supernova event called SN 2022abvt was discovered two years ago in the spiral galaxy LEDA 132905. LEDA 132905 resides over 400 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. “The ...