As the water seeped into the arid ground, it reawakened extremophiles that can lie dormant in dried-out lake and riverbeds ...

T he North-Eastern Central African Republic (CAR) is celebrating the first video and photographic evidence of lion cubs in the region in decades. Following the dedicated efforts of conservation teams, ...

That’s why making sure that they contain as much detail as they possibly can is so important – and the US Geological Survey (USGS) appears to have achieved that in its newly-released geologic map of ...

T his is Contender, the largest male great white shark that’s been caught, tagged, and released in the Atlantic. Measuring 4.19 meters (13 feet 9 inches), this heavyweight predator has been quietly ...

Advanced telescopes are engineering marvels. Think of Hubble, JWST, the Very Large Telescope, or the shiny new one, the Vera Rubin Observatory. Magnificent instruments. Still, every human invention ...

The sheetweb spiders don’t just eat male fireflies the moment they get caught. Nope, that’s too simple. Instead, the sneaky arachnids leave trapped fireflies to continue flashing their bioluminescent ...

A destructive hailstorm has literally made its mark on southern Alberta, Canada, after pummeling the region with golf ball-sized hailstones, leaving a 200-kilometer-long, 15-kilometer-wide ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health.

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the ...

They then scanned the Middle Pleistocene fossil record in search of specimens that matched the Denisovan profile, and found ...

Some of its diet comes from the tiny crustaceans and other small animals that have been swept up by the trailing tentacles of jellies. It’s been suggested that the fish's unusual visual system helps ...

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