Scientists detect Golden Ratio in human skulls
The Golden Ratio, described by Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli as the Divine Proportion, is an infinite number often found in nature, art...
Scientists reveal how Tyrannosaurus ate its prey
A Tyrannosaurus rex could bite hard enough to shatter the bones of its prey.
But how it accomplished this feat without breaking its own skull...
Scientists discover a gateway for comets to visit our inner Solar System
A recent study may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the...
Gigantic masses in Earth’s mantle untouched for more than 4 billion years, says study
Ancient, distinct, continent-sized regions of rocks, isolated since before the collision that created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago, exist hundreds of miles below...
What ancient Denisovans may have looked like
If you could travel back in time 100,000 years, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and...
Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age before dinosaurs
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze.
The seas began to ice over at the Earth's poles,...
Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution
Human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apes, a new study suggests.
Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for...
Boney armor protects Komodo dragons in battle
The boney armor that Komodo dragons have just beneath their scales helps protect the dominant predator from other Komodo dragons, researchers report.
Tiny bones cover...
Scientists discover the sixth major mass extinction
Scientists have concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago.
This raises the total of major...
Scientists discover new giant flying pterosaur
A newly identified species of pterosaur is among the largest ever flying animals, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London.
Cryodrakon...