Scientists previously believed that the deeper a fish lives, the less complex their visual system would be. But according to…
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A new species of giant mammal has been identified after researchers investigated bones that had been kept for decades in…
A controversial study shows that the fish ‘Bluestreak cleaner wrasse’ recognize themselves in mirrors — a key determinant of intelligence.…
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found a single gene, called nemuri,…
The remains of a 180 million-year-old ichthyosaur (literally ‘fish-lizard’) have been analyzed, and the fossil is so well-preserved that its…
Ancient DNA from mainland Finland reveals for the first time that ancestors of the Saami people came from Siberia…
An extinct giant rhinoceros, sometimes described as a “Siberian unicorn,” lived on the planet much longer than scientists previously thought,…
A toothless whale fossil without signs of baleen could help explain how the whale filtration system evolved. Researchers have…
The cat tongue is covered in sharp, rear-facing spines called papillae, the precise function of which is a mystery. In…
The discovery of an enormous prehistoric animal, which lived during the Triassic period 200 million years ago, indicates early dinosaurs…
Scientists believe Thylacoleo carnifex was probably a victim of the drying out of Australia, which began about 350,000 years…
Same-sex mouse parents give birth via gene editing in China when Scientists delivered pups with genetic material from two moms and two dads. But only pups with two moms survived to have babies themselves. A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences stunned geneticists by revealing they had effectively rewritten the rules of reproduction, and
Some features of a giraffe’s spot pattern are passed on from mother to baby, according to a new study…
Scientists have discovered an ancient fossil of the earliest animal on geological record. Called “Dickinsoni”, this strange oval creature had rib-like segments running along its body that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. According to a new paper published last week in Science, researchers argue that an iconic fossil from this time period is
A new species of a giant, plant-eating dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province, and described by a team of international researchers in Current Biology. Ledumahadi mafube, which means “a giant thunderclap at dawn,” in the South African language Sesotho, walked in an unusual way. It did not walk on straight limbs,