Imagine a creature with dozens of legs, stretching nearly nine feet long, that once crawled through ancient forests—a monstrous, now-extinct arthropod known as Arthropleura. Despite… Read More »Scientists Discover the Head of the Giant Arthropod Arthropleura
The Hell Creek Formation in what’s now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world’s most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops… Read More »New Bird Species Discovered in Dinosaur Era
The discovery of a giant elephant skull in northern India’s Kashmir Valley has illuminated an enigmatic chapter in the evolutionary history of elephants. Unearthed in… Read More »Scientists Discover New Species of Giant Elephant in Kashmir
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, alongside an international research team, have uncovered the prehistory of the aurochs, one of the most significant animals in early… Read More »Researchers Uncover the Complex Genetic History of Aurochs
Researchers, including Federico J. Degrange and Siobhán Cooke, Ph.D., from Johns Hopkins University, recently analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant, meat-eating bird commonly known… Read More »Terror Bird Fossil Found in Northern South America
From the colorful parades of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival to the shoulders of pirates, parrots are known around the world for their vibrant feathers. With… Read More »Researchers Uncover the Genetic Switch Behind Parrot Colors
Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ecosystem in what is… Read More »New Research Challenges Traditional Explanations for Yixian Fossil Preservation
Supermassive black holes, some containing billions of times the mass of the Sun, lie at the center of most galaxies, and researchers continue to observe… Read More »Astronomers Discover a Rapidly Growing Black Hole in the Early Universe
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new material capable of capturing benzene, a harmful air pollutant, offering a potential solution to a… Read More »Scientists Develop Highly Efficient MOF for Benzene Capture
Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of electromagnetic radiation of particularly high energies, are… Read More »HAWC Observatory Reveals Microquasars as Powerful Sources of High-Energy Gamma Rays