Ichthyosaurs are a group of successful Mesozoic marine reptiles that have a worldwide distribution, but their evolutionary origin is still unclear. In recent years,...
The fossilized remains of the triceratops specimen known as "Big John" display injuries to the skull that may have occurred during combat with another...
Drought had already devastated Allawddin Rahimi's wheat fields when the Taliban reached his village in northern Afghanistan. The group's takeover left him with no...
Seawater samples taken from a surfboard have helped scientists understand microscopic life in the waves, new research shows.
Phytoplankton are at the base of ocean...
An international team of researchers has found evidence of a megathrust earthquake occurring approximately 3,800 years ago off the coast of what is now...
Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered unusual ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet. How and why...
Plant-foliage-derived gases drive a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...
On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint...
Dark Matter Web
In the 1930s, a Swiss astronomer named Fritz Zwicky noticed that galaxies in a distant cluster were orbiting one another much faster...
