Paleontologists in Uruguay have identified a new species of aeolosaurine titanosaur from a pair of remarkably well-preserved tailbones unearthed in the 1980s near the Uruguay River.
A new analysis of data from the Western Australian-based Raine Study suggests that two humble vegetable groups -- legumes and ...
Paleontologists working in northeastern Thailand have identified a new species of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, offering ...
On July 5, 2026, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft completed the first asteroid encounter of its ...
A major challenge in the study of human prehistory is linking cultural artifacts in the archaeological record to the human ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting ...
People who naturally stay up late may be more prone to obesity and poorer metabolic health in part because they consume more ...
Named Panthera pardus burgtonnae, the newly-identified leopard subspecies roamed Europe during the Eemian interglacial period ...
Spriggina floundersi, a marine species that lived during the Ediacaran period 550 million years ago, is one of Earth’s earliest bilaterally symmetrical animals.
On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe closed to within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the small near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3, one of only seven Earth quasi-satellites identified to date, kicking off a science ...
Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae — the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...