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New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in Romania
by Enrico de Lazaro on June 16, 2026 at 9:19 pm
An international team of paleontologists from Romania, Hungary and Italy has identified a new genus and species of herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur from an incomplete skeleton unearthed in the […]
New Species of Walking Shark Discovered off Papua New Guinea
by Natali Anderson on June 16, 2026 at 7:51 pm
Marine biologists have identified a new species of the shark genus Hemiscyllium in the waters of eastern Papua New Guinea, expanding a remarkable group of reef-dwelling sharks known for using their […]
Evidence of Fire Use by Early Humans May Date Back Nearly 1.8 Million Years
by Enrico de Lazaro on June 16, 2026 at 4:38 pm
Scientists have uncovered compelling new evidence that early human ancestors, likely Homo erectus, were deliberately bringing fire into Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa as far back as 1.79 million […]
Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki
by Sergio Prostak on June 15, 2026 at 8:38 pm
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known […]
Experimental Copper-Based Drug Clears Alzheimer’s Plaques and Boosts Memory in Mice
by News Staff on June 15, 2026 at 6:53 pm
Copper diacetyl bis(4-methyl-3-thiosemicarbazone), or Cu(ATSM), restored a key waste-removal system in the brain, reducing toxic amyloid-beta buildup and improving spatial memory in lab models of […]
New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils
by Enrico de Lazaro on June 15, 2026 at 5:36 pm
Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, […]
Eliminating Sucrose from Low-Fat Diet Alters Gut Microbiome, Animal Study Suggests
by News Staff on June 15, 2026 at 3:49 pm
In a mouse study conducted by scientists at the Dasman Diabetes Institute in Kuwait, rodents fed a sucrose-free diet developed insulin resistance, gut microbial imbalances and signs of fatty liver […]
Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early Universe
by Enrico de Lazaro on June 15, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Using Webb’s NIRCam and NIRSpec instruments, astronomers have obtained the deepest spectrum ever taken of a little red dot. The post Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ […]
Entomologists Reconstruct Evolutionary History of Millipedes
by Natali Anderson on June 14, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Two elusive groups of millipedes, Siphoniulida and Siphonocryptida, were the last missing pieces in the evolutionary history of Earth’s oldest land animals, according to a team of entomologists led […]
Astronomers May Have Found Supernova Remnant near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
by News Staff on June 12, 2026 at 3:43 pm
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers identified a possible remnant of ancient stellar explosion just a few dozen light-years from Sagittarius A*, a […]
New Species of Ancient Bear-Dog Identified in Spain
by Natali Anderson on June 11, 2026 at 9:46 pm
Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of amphicyonid -- the extinct family of carnivorous mammals popularly known as bear-dogs -- from two specimens unearthed at a rich fossil […]
Amazon’s Elusive Short-Eared Dog May Be More Common than Researchers Once Thought
by Natali Anderson on June 11, 2026 at 7:34 pm
Hundreds of camera-trap records from Bolivia and Peru suggest the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis), one of the world’s least-known canids and one of Latin America’s least-known carnivores, […]
Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Cozumel Dwarf Fox
by Natali Anderson on June 11, 2026 at 5:33 pm
Researchers have obtained the first-ever photographs of the Cozumel dwarf fox (Urocyon sp.), an elusive dwarf fox living on the Caribbean island of Cozumel, off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. […]
Study: Cave Lions were Distinct Species that Occasionally Bred with Ancestors of Today’s Lions
by Sergio Prostak on June 10, 2026 at 10:54 pm
The extinct Eurasian cave lion (Panthera spelaea) and today’s African and Asian lions (Panthera leo) belong to separate evolutionary lineages that diverged roughly 1.7 million years ago -- far […]
Schrödinger’s Cat Gets Stranger: Physicists Demonstrate Quantum States No One Has Seen Before
by News Staff on June 10, 2026 at 8:54 pm
Physicists at the University of Oxford have engineered a new class of ‘cat states’ -- quantum superpositions constructed not from ordinary wave packets, but from deeply exotic, nonclassical […]
Earth’s Earliest Animals May Have Thrived Too Easily to Evolve
by News Staff on June 10, 2026 at 7:25 pm
Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest that cloning, not competition, dominated the Ediacaran seas, slowing evolution […]
Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of Colossal Asteroid Strike
by News Staff on June 10, 2026 at 5:36 pm
Planetary scientists analyzing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 have uncovered evidence of an asteroid impact that occurred 3.5 billion years ago on the Moon, helping to […]
Secret to Sloths’ Slow Life May Lie in Ancient ‘Jumping Genes’
by News Staff on June 10, 2026 at 3:13 pm
In new research, scientists sequenced and analyzed chromosome-level genomes of the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) and the southern anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla). The post […]
Fossil Discovery in Patagonia Reveals New Species of Horned Turtle
by Enrico de Lazaro on June 9, 2026 at 9:31 pm
Paleontologists have identified a new species of meiolaniform turtle from northern Patagonia, Argentina, that lived during the Maastrichtian age, just before the asteroid-triggered mass extinction […]
Spanish Cave Sanctuary Reveals More Than 11,500 Years of Activity
by Enrico de Lazaro on June 9, 2026 at 6:46 pm
New radiocarbon dates from Sala Keimada, a hard-to-reach chamber of Cueva Palomera in the province of Burgos, northern Spain, suggest that generations of people returned to the sacred space from the […]