Prehistoric people hunted woolly mammoth. A growing body of research suggests that this species – and at least 46 other megaherbivore species – have been driven to extinction by humans.…
May's solar superstorm, which lit up the world's night skies with colorful aurora borealis, also caused chaos in orbit as thousands of satellites had to maneuver simultaneously to maintain their…
Summary: Researchers examined the brain and body sizes of 1,500 species, finding that larger animals do not have proportionally larger brains, challenging long-held beliefs. The study reveals that the brain-body…
NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, the longest-running Mars mission, circled the Red Planet for the 100,000th time today, the mission team announced in statement.To celebrate the milestone, the space agency released an…
The surface of Titan. Simulations by geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology show that the lakes and seas of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, were shaped by wave-driven erosion. Credit:…
Lokiceratops rangiformis lived about 78 million years ago, the researchers said.Jun 20, 2024 8:07 am ET• 6 minutes of readingA new species of giant-horned dinosaur has been discovered, which researchers…
Researchers have identified Tmesipteris oblanceolataa New Caledonian fern as having the largest genome on record, surpassing the previous record holder Parisian Japonica. This discovery, detailed in iScience magazine, reveals that…
Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They were looking for a fern called Tmesipteris oblanceolata.…
A group of small branching ferns - credit Paul Fernandez, published via iScience On the island of New Caledonia, a simple, nondescript species of fern has been identified as having…
A small, seemingly inconspicuous fern that grows only on a remote Pacific island was crowned on Friday as the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any…