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 ...

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

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

D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

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

A new species of stick insect has been discovered in Australia, and it’s an absolute whopper. Named Acrophylla alta, it’s ...

A hundred years ago, explorer Percy Fawcett went in search of a lost city deep in the Amazon rainforest. His quest to find “The City Of Z,” as he called it, was inspired by a mysterious “Manuscript ...

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 ...

“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 ...