A team of archaeologists from the University of Chester, Heneb: the Trust for Welsh Archaeology and the Portable Antiquities Scheme has uncovered the ruins of a Roman settlement and a rare Medieval ...

In a new study, astronomers compared high-resolution images of Uranus from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to the more-distant view from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Their results may serve as ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species in the tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus Labocania, based on a partial skeleton found in Coahuila, Mexico. The newly-discovered dinosaur ...

Despite the long history of consumption of fermented dairy, little is known about how the fermented microbes were utilized and evolved over human history. By retrieving ancient DNA of 3,500-year-old ...

During the Mesozoic era, between 250 and 120 million years ago, an ancient seafloor sank deep into Earth in the East Pacific Rise, a tectonic plate boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific ...

The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of physicists from China. “The magic numbers of protons and neutrons, such as 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, ...

“There are many types of flatworms, but most of them are aquatic,” said North Carolina State University diagnostic entomologist Matt Bertone. “Most of the flatworms that you do find on land exist in ...

Xibalbanus tulumensis, a venomous remipede found in anchialine caves on the Yucatán Peninsula, is the only crustacean for which a venom system has been described. “Venomous animals inject their toxic ...

A team of marine biologists led by a Florida International University researcher has described a new species of the shark genus Sphyrna from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic. Named for the ...

Centaurs are former trans-Neptunian objects that have been moved inside Neptune’s orbit by subtle gravitational influences of the planets in the last few million years, and may eventually become short ...

Paleontologists have described three new enantiornithine birds from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, two of which represent new avisaurid species. These birds lived alongside dinosaurs 68 million ...

Until now, the fungus gnat genus Robsonomyia was represented by two living species: Robsonomyia reducta from North America and Robsonomyia sciaraeformis from Asia. Paleontologists have now found two ...