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New Therizinosaurian Dinosaur Unearthed in China

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of therizinosaur based on a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern China.

Ice Age Artists Took Cues from Ivory Itself, 18,000-Year-Old Figurines from Ukraine Suggest

Roughly 18,000 years ago, in what is now northern Ukraine, artists carved small female figurines from mammoth ivory and covered them with zigzag…

Britain’s Tallest Standing Stones Traced to Their Geological Source

Scientists from Curtin University and the University of York have pinpointed the origin of the Devil’s Arrows, the three towering gritstone mega…

New Owl Species Discovered in Peru

A horned owl living in a narrow strip of high-Andean grassland in northern Peru is a species new to science, according to a paper published in J…

115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Recovered from Deep Drill Core in China

Scientists have identified the first dinosaur fossil from a remote western section of the Bayan Gobi Formation in China’s Inner Mongolia, extend…

55-Million-Year-Old Predatory Mammal Footprint Found in Antarctica

A single fossilized footprint found in volcanic mud on a remote Antarctic island is the first known trackway from a mammal in Antarctica, and th…

?Compostable’ Coffee Cups May Shed More Plastic than the Ones They’re Meant to Replace

New research suggests that when it comes to shedding tiny plastic particles into hot beverages, biodegradable cups may actually be worse offende…

Mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ Could Be Tiny Galaxies with Giant Black Holes at Their Hearts

A new analysis of images of 217 ‘little red dots’ from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope suggests they sit inside remarkably compact,…

New Species of Armored Dinosaur Identified in Japan

Cranial fossils of a nodosaurid ankylosaur unearthed more than two decades ago on the Japanese island of Hokkaido have been recognized as belong…

Fossil of Small Duck-Billed Dinosaur Relative Found in Japan

A fossilized bone unearthed two decades ago in northeastern Japan belongs to one of the smallest iguanodontian dinosaurs ever found in the count…

Meet Bataspis crux, Jawless Fish that Cruised Devonian Seas with Batwing Head

Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped l…

Neanderthal Pelvis May Reveal Why Modern Men and Women Walk Differently

A Neanderthal pelvis -- the basin-shaped ring of bones at the base of the spin -- discovered decades ago may help explain an unusual feature of…

Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories

Astronomers propose that the dust-rich tori surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN) -- the energetic cores of galaxies powered by feeding super…

Homo antecessor Had Surprisingly Modern Skull, New Fossils Suggest

A new analysis of three skull fragments unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in Spain indicates that Homo antecessor had bone thickness closer…

Dodo Had Surprisingly Keen Sense of Smell and Owl-Like Vision, New Study Reveals

New research led by University of Lethbridge scientists offers the most detailed look yet at how the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) -- the flightless…

Higher Vitamin D in Midlife May Be Associated with Lower Levels of Alzheimer’s Biomarker Years Later

In new research, University of Galway’s Dr. Martin David Mulligan and his colleagues followed nearly 800 participants from the Framingham Heart…

Paleontologists Unearth New Species of Titanosaur in Argentina

A new genus and species of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period has been identified from the fossilized remains…

New Lunar Regolith Analysis Challenges Meteorite-Water Theory

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion ye…