K. Marsicano Gaiasia jennyae, a newly discovered freshwater apex predator with a body length of up to 4.5 meters, lurking in swamps and lakes about 280 million years ago. Its…
Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct, but instead may have been absorbed into the modern human population. That's one of the conclusions of a new study that finds modern…
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, our species appeared in Africa. DNA studies of living humans show that early Homo sapiens stayed on the continent for a long time, with…
Anyone who stares into the summer night sky for even a short time is likely to notice a few "shooting stars" darting across the sky. The best meteor display of…
Time may not be a fundamental element of the universe, but rather an illusion arising from quantum entanglement, a new study suggests. time is a thorny problem for physicists; its…
Researchers have reconstructed the woolly mammoth's genetic code in unprecedented detail after finding fossilized chromosomes in the skin of a 52,000-year-old carcass preserved in Siberian permafrost.The mammoth's lush mane led…
Valery Plotnikov (left) of the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk, Russia, and Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan examine a woolly mammoth found during a 2018…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the closest massive black hole to Earth ever seen, a cosmic titan 'frozen in time'. As an example of an elusive "intermediate-mass…
The first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been in orbit for more than a month and still has no return date.Starliner launched June 5 on Crew Flight Test…
A study suggests that Mars had a cold, subarctic climate similar to Newfoundland, based on analyzes of soil from Gale Crater. This discovery provides new insights into the preservation of…