Over 20 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope looked at a little patch of sky for days, with this methodical approach ...

At first glance, the Iberian ribbed newt’s defense might seem fairly standard fodder for an amphibian; like several species ...

It’s just as well conditions like this are not common, or 18th-century geologists might have never made sense of Earth's ...

Much like the Wallace Line, this mysterious deep-sea divide in the Atlantic shows us that the ocean is not a continuous ...

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

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Even after treatment and with a cancer being declared “in remission”, it’s still possible to find a handful of dormant cells ...

A giant marine reptile that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Germany. Retrieved from the world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, the newly named Plesionectes longicollum ...

A Blue Moon can be defined as a monthly one (the second full Moon in a calendar month) or a seasonal one (the third full Moon in a season). Similarly, you can have a monthly Black Moon, happening ...

Previous studies have identified three waves of gene flow between the two human species, with the first interbreeding event taking place some 250,000 to 200,000 years ago. A second hook-up then ...

“Tyrannosaurids like T. rex had skulls that were optimized for high bite forces at the cost of higher skull stress,” Rowe said. “But in some other giants, like Giganotosaurus, we calculated stress ...