The Yukon, a territory located in northwestern Canada, was once home to ancient rhinos and turtles, a recent analysis of fossils discovered in 1973 shows.
The ancient fragments of teeth were so small and in such bad shape that “most paleontologists may not have picked them up,” said Jaelyn Eberle,...
Researchers believe they have discovered a new, bizarre type of cosmic object that is invisible to all wavelengths of light except radio.
The mysterious rings have been dubbed Odd Radio Circles, or ORCs, as they "do not seem to correspond to any known type of object", according to a recent...
In 1916, Albert Einstein put the finishing touches on his Theory of General Relativity, a journey that began in 1905 with his attempts to reconcile Newton’s own theories of gravitation with the laws of electromagnetism. Once complete, Einstein’s theory provided a unified description of gravity as a geometric property...
Chemical traces found in the shell of a marine bivalve suggest that Earth turned faster around its own axis some 65 million years ago than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365 daily full rotations.
Rudists were large-sized bivalves, closely related to modern clams,...
The mysterious appearance of pink snow in the Italian Alps has sparked concerns over accelerated melting in the European mountain range.
Scientists are investigating the phenomenon, which might be caused by algae usually observed in Greenland, after the discoloured snow appeared on the Presena Glacia, around 30 miles from the...
Indiana Jones has nothing on Nathan Hrushkin.
That's because back in July, the 12-year-old Calgary resident went fossil hunting with his dad Dion, and hit paydirt, when he found a fossil of a 69-million-year-old hadrosaur in the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Nodwell property at Horseshoe Canyon.
“I know that it’s...
You’ve never seen amphibians in this light before. Like, literally, this specific azure light. Today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers for the first time show that amphibians glow if you throw blue light on them. The tiger salamander suddenly pops with brilliant green spots. Cranwell's horned frog is...
The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites of mid-20th century archaeology: Shanidar Cave, in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Researchers say the new find offers an unparalleled opportunity to investigate the "mortuary...
Deadly prehistoric crocodiles mimicked the shape and senses of whales and dolphins to dominate Jurassic seas, new research has found.
The extinct crocodiles, thalattosuchia, evolved from their land-living ancestors to become fast swimming predators.
Experts from the University of Edinburgh have also found they adapted a part of the inner ear,...
