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Published The Moon is 40 million years older than previously thought



By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, researchers recalculated...
Published Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago



Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine inverte ...
Published Long-distance weaponry identified at the 31,000-year-old archaeological site of Maisières-Canal



The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 year ...
Published Sharks have depleted functional diversity compared to the last 66 million years



New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last...
Published Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution



Comparison of over 200 high-quality butterfly and moth genomes reveals key insights into their biolo...
Published No bones about it: 100-million-year-old bones reveal new species of pterosaur



New research has identified 100-million-year-old fossilized bones discovered in western Queensland a ...
Published Whale shark tracked for record-breaking four years



Researchers have been tracking a 26-foot endangered whale shark -- named 'Rio Lady' -- with a satell...
Published Will EEG be able to read your dreams? The future of the brain activity measure as it marks 100 years



One hundred years after the human brain's electrical activity was first recorded, experts are celebr ...
Published First 'warm-blooded' dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago



The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved...
Published Hubble finds surprises around a star that erupted 40 years ago



Astronomers have used new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospher...
Published Study uncovers hundred-year lifespans for three freshwater fish species in the Arizona desert



New study finds some of the oldest animals in the world living in a place you wouldn't expect: fishe...
Published French love letters confiscated by Britain finally read after 265 years



Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fianc es, wives, parents and siblings -- but never...
Published 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead



A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened sku ...
Published Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making



An exceptionally rare fossilized porcupine skeleton discovered in Florida has allowed researchers to...
Published NASA's Webb maps weather on planet 280 light-years away



Researchers have successfully used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot g...
Published Oldest fossil human footprints in North America confirmed



New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Las...
Published Scientists extract genetic secrets from 4,000-year-old teeth to illuminate the impact of changing human diets over the centuries



Researchers have recovered remarkably preserved microbiomes from two teeth dating back 4,000 years, ...
Published Finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago



During archaeological excavations in the Schoningen open-cast coal mine in 1994, the discovery of th...
Published Entomologist sheds light on 250-year-old mystery of the German cockroach



Entomologists have solved the 250-year-old origin puzzle of the most prevalent indoor urban pest ins ...
Published The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes



About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the wester ...