Dog ancestry can be traced to two Ice Age wolf populations
An international group of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, have found that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to...
Oil and gas activity linked to most recent earthquakes in West Texas
Since 2009, earthquakes have been rapidly rising in the Delaware Basin – a prolific oil-producing region in West Texas and New Mexico.
According to a...
Scientists discover bizarre meat-eating dinosaur in Egypt’s Sahara Desert.
Researchers at Ohio University and other institutions have discovered a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated fossil site in...
Liquid water could exist for billions of years on non-Earth-like planets
Low-mass planets with a primordial atmosphere of hydrogen and helium might have the temperatures and pressures that allow water in the liquid phase.
The...
Ancient microbes may help us find extraterrestrial life forms
Using light-capturing proteins in living microbes, scientists have reconstructed what life was like for some of Earth’s earliest organisms.
These efforts could help us recognize...
Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction
Using zinc isotopes, researchers investigated the diet of the megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived
Megatooth sharks like Otodus megalodon, more commonly known...
New study explains what may have triggered ice age
A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts:
Where did the ice sheets...
The smell of desert rain may be good for your health
Desert dwellers know it well: the smell of rain and the feeling of euphoria that comes when a storm washes over the parched earth.
That...
Human middle ear evolved from fish gills, shows fossil study
The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that...
This extinct giant crocodile species likely preyed on human ancestors
Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles roamed a part of Africa with a taste for our human ancestors.
In a new study, researchers led...