Burtele Foot Points to Other Past Hominins
The discovery of the Burtele foot fossil is leading researchers to believe that there was more than one early hominin species during the time of…
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Climate Change Moving Faster than Bird Migration
New research shows that climate change may have a negative effect on birds. A new study looked at 59 different North American species of birds…
Antimagnet Cloak Hides Objects from Static Magnetic Fields
Researchers in the journal Science have reported that they can now create a cloak that hides objects from static magnetic fields. There are a multitude…
New Insight on Pterosaur Specimen, Istiodactylus Latidens
New research has allowed paleontologists to gain new insight on a prehistoric piece of jaw from a pterosaur specimen, Istiodactylus latidens, which has been housed…
Cicadas Might Have Given Rise to a Form of Batesian Mimicry in Citheronia Azteca
Periodical invasions of cicadas are common across the eastern United States and giant silk moths (Citheronia azteca) might have evolved to resemble cicadas as a…
7 Million Year Old Footprints Reveal Elephant Social Structure from the Past
Although elephants vanished from the United Arab Emirates a long time ago, it appears that footprints made roughly seven million years ago in the Arabian…
Exposing 8,000 Years of Civilization With Satellites
Hidden beneath mounds of Earth, in the fertile crescent of the Middle East, lie overlooked networks of small settlements that date back millennia. Archaeologists are…
Looking Back to Move Thermoelectric Materials Forward
In search of better thermoelectric materials, a team of physicists turned to a material NASA engineers first used roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design,…
Titanoboa, a Paleogene Period 40-Foot Long Snake
A new fossil of an extraordinarily large snake was discovered in the lowland tropics of northern Colombia, 60 miles from the Caribbean coast in Cerrejón….
Noise Affects More Than Just Your Ears
It has long been known that noise affects animal behavior, just look at our personal reactions and behaviors when stuck in a noisy city. But…
Traces of Oil from Deepwater Horizon May Work Their Way up the Food Chain
New research has demonstrated that zooplankton in the Northern Gulf of Mexico accumulated toxic compounds derived from crude oil that rushed from the Macondo well…
Skydiver Baumgartner Makes Jump From 13 Miles Above Earth’s Surface
The daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner rode a pressurized capsule to an altitude of 71,580 feet, about 13.5 miles, situated in the stratosphere, and jumped off….
Smokers Likely to Quit Because of Social Disapproval, Not Fear
A new study based in the UK shows that fear provoked by graphic images had no effect on smokers’ intentions to stop smoking and that…
Methane Hydrate Cages, The Key to Using Methane as a Clean Energy Source?
Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are researching ways to use methane as a clean energy source by capturing the CO2 byproduct in an…
Jawless Vertebrate Conodont Had Sharpest Yet Minuscule Teeth
The conodont, an extinct primitive marine vertebrate, had the sharpest teeth ever known, with tips just one-twentieth of the width of a human hair, and…
Pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus Being Eaten by Ganoid Fish Aspidorhynchus Fossilized
This incredible fossil, depicting a pterosaur in the process of being devoured by a ganoid fish, was recently showcased in a new study published in PLoS…
Microraptor Feathers Were Black With Iridescent Sheen
Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago had plumage that had hues of black and blue like a crow and…
Floods in Wagga Wagga Australia Provoke Extremely Wide Spiderwebs
Escaping spiders are fleeing the floods in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, by moving to higher ground and building massive networks of interconnected spiderwebs,…