Paleontologists have found the fossils of three new fish species — including the earliest known salmonid fish, Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — at the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, the United ...

Cicadidae is one of the most species-rich insect families today. However, compared to the number of living species, fossil records of Cicadidae are extremely limited. The newly-discovered species, ...

This supermassive black hole was discovered thanks to the newly-identified tidal disruption event AT2024tvd, an astronomical phenomenon in which a star passes too close to a black hole and the extreme ...

Distal regulation — the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of thousands of DNA letters — appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution, between 650 and 700 million years ago ...

Superb starlings (Lamprotornis superbus) demonstrate ‘reciprocity,’ helping each other with the expectation that the favor will eventually be returned, according to new research. The superb starling ...

In new research, astronomers used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to observe a highly relativistic jet emanating from the blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a ...

Astronomers using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have captured a stunning new image of the nebula Gum 80. Gum 80 is located roughly 6,000 light-years away in the ...

The new theory, developed by physicists at Aalto University, describes gravity in a way that’s compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding of ...

Regular light-dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioral shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behavior during eclipses ...

NGC 3596 is located approximately 90 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Leo. The galaxy was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784. Also ...

The new specimen represents the world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur, according to a team of paleontologists from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, the University of Birmingham and the ...

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Ukraine has developed a new method for the safe reassessment of farmland abandoned after the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Since the Chornobyl ...