Fossil Reveals Weird, Toothed ‘Toucan’ That Lived Alongside The Dinosaurs
The discovery of a creature described as resembling a “buck-toothed toucan” that lived some 68 million years ago has upended assumptions about diversity in the birds that lived alongside dinosaurs.…
Melting Ice Has Revealed a Spectacular Trove of Ancient Hunting Artifacts in Norway
Archaeologists have uncovered a “treasure trove” of artifacts as another major ice patch melts away in the Norwegian mountains, revealing a total of 68 arrows and many more items from…
Controversial 7-Million-Year-Old Skull May Not Have Been as Human as We Thought
The question of whether a 7-million-year-old primate, nicknamed ‘Toumai,’ walked on two or four legs has whipped up drama amongst palaeontologists – complete with a vanishing femur. Since the discovery…
Huge Underground Reservoir of Freshwater Discovered Off The Coast of Hawai’i
For a long time, Hawai’i Island has been home to a mystery. Somehow, the amount of freshwater in underground aquifers has seemed much smaller than it should be, given the…
What Sealed The Fate of The Giant Megalodon? Its Ancient Teeth May Reveal The Answer
The largest sharks ever to have roamed the oceans parked their young in shallow, warm-water nurseries where food was abundant and predators scarce until they could assume their title as…
X-Ray Scans of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Reveal a Surprising Discovery
An Egyptian mummy that was decorated with a woman’s portrait contained a surprise – the body of a child who was only 5 years old when she died. Now, scientists…
Mysterious Metal Monolith Appears in Remote Utah Desert And Has Authorities Stumped
Who embedded a large metal monolith in the remote Utah desert? State wildlife officials are scratching their heads after discovering a bizarre 10-foot-tall (3 meters) installation in Red Rock Country…
Massive Swarm of Eels Is The Most Fish Ever Recorded at The Bottom of The Ocean
Before we start mining for precious metals in the darkness of the deep sea, we might try switching on the light first and observing our surroundings. In this seemingly isolated…
Giant Search Confirms Charles Darwin’s Notebooks Are Missing, Presumed Stolen
Two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous “Tree of Life” sketch are missing, believed stolen, the Cambridge University Library said on Tuesday. The…
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Smart Enough to Know When It Can’t Be Trusted
How might The Terminator have played out if Skynet had decided it probably wasn’t responsible enough to hold the keys to the entire US nuclear arsenal? As it turns out,…
Grisly Beach Discovery Reveals Broken ‘Sword’ That Slayed an Unlucky Shark
When a dead thresher shark washed up onshore, it was obvious what had killed it – a swordfish had stabbed it from behind and left a large hunk of its…
These Ants Suit Up in a Protective ‘Biomineral Armor’ Never Seen Before in Insects
Ants are pretty organised little creatures. Highly social insects, they know how to forage, build complicated nests, steal your pantry snacks, and generally look after the queens and the colony,…
Cave in California Holds First Evidence of Humans Taking Hallucinogens, Study Says
Just before going into a hallucinogenic trance, Indigenous Californians who had gathered in a cave likely looked up toward the rocky ceiling, where a pinwheel and big-eyed moth were painted…
Greenhouse Gases Still at Record Levels Despite COVID-19 Lockdowns, UN Warns
We’ve seen evidence that COVID-19 lockdowns have reduced at least some forms of pollution, temporarily – but the overall picture remains disturbingly grim, according to new figures from the United…
The World’s Oldest Evidence of Animals Might Be From a Very Different Organism
The origins of life, a few billion years ago, were humble. Single-celled organisms squirming in the ooze, over millions and billions of years developing into multi-celled plants and, eventually, animals.…
Scientists Detect ‘Superbolts’ 1,000 Times Brighter Than Typical Lightning Strikes
Every now and then, Earth reminds us it’s capable of releasing some furious energy. Case in point: scientists have just detected a new extreme in hotspots of lightning activity called…
Athletes ‘In The Zone’ Inhabit 2 Different Psychological States, Scientists Say
We often hear about people being “in the zone” when they have excelled, be it at sport, playing music, video gaming, or going for a run. For decades, researchers have…
Ancient Victims of Mount Vesuvius’s Fury Discovered in The Ashes of Pompeii
The remains of two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago have been unearthed at a grand villa on the fringes of Pompeii, officials at the…
This Weird, Cheap Quantum Device Can Run For a Year With a Single Kick of Energy
As our need for electronic gadgets and sensors grows, scientists are coming up with new ways to keep devices powered for longer on less energy. The latest sensor to be…
Even Mount Everest, The Tallest Peak in The World, Cannot Escape Microplastics
Microplastics of our own making are turning up in the rain, wind, soil, and snow of the most remote and mountainous regions on our planet. First they were found in…
New Models Could Help African Countries Stop Locust Swarms Before They Start
Several countries in East Africa – namely Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and South Sudan – are still trying to contain the worst desert locust invasion the region has experienced in over…
Greenland Is Melting, And a New Model Suggests We’ve Greatly Underestimated Its Impact
Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise by…
Da Vinci’s Drawings Contain a Surprising Mix of Bacteria, Fungi, And Human DNA
Leonardo da Vinci is famous for his elaborate, nuanced artworks and advanced technological ideas. But new research has revealed another level of complexity to his drawings: a hidden world of…
Depressing Study Shows a Big Issue With Using Cloud Seeding to Solve Global Warming
The clouds that hang low and thick in our sky, reflecting sunlight back out into space, are melting into thin air as the world warms. The loss will not only…
Physicists Just Discovered The Ultimate ‘Kings And Queens’ of Quantumness
Is that light particle more like a ball careening through space, or more of a smeary mess that is everywhere at once? The answer depends on whether the absurd laws…