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Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air high ...
Imagine going through a surgery where the doctor proposes the use of a temporary implant that dissolves by itself with time in the human body, thereby avoiding a painful second surgery. As great as that would sound, the challenges ...
Exciting new research is investigating how boobies (birds of the genus Sula) may be able to reduce the potentially lethal impact of their high-speed vertical dives by creating a cushion of "supercavitation" bubbles upon impact ...
The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with Canterbury Museum, the Ng膩i Tahu Research Center and filmmaker Peter Jackson, caused ...
Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize, Central America have uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first ruler of this ancient Maya city and the founder of its royal dynasty. Now in ...
A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking lot in January, making the herbivorous animal's remains the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil ...
In 1931, the Skh奴l I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skh奴l (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skh奴l Cave, Israel. It forms part of the oldest intentional human burials ever discovered, dating back to ca. 140,000 ...
An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists鈥攁 bone considered important to flight in birds.
Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more than 20 million years ago. The recovered protein sequences allowed researchers to determine that ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on Neanderthal ingenuity. The ancient utensil dates back to the end of the Saalian glaciation, around 130,000 ...
