Thyreosaurus atlasicus lived in northern Africa during the Middle Jurassic epoch, approximately 165 million years ago. The species is closely related to Dacentrurus, a member of the clade ...

To study dark energy’s effects over the past 11 billion years, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has created the largest 3D map of our cosmos ever constructed, with the most precise ...

In new research, a team of paleontologists examined the tooth structure of Feredocodon chowi, a new species of shuotheriid mammaliaform that lived in what is now China during the Jurassic period, to ...

Ichthyotitan severnensis lived in the Triassic seas around 202 million years ago and might have measured more than 25 m (82 feet). Ichthyosaurs are dolphin-like marine reptiles known from hundreds of ...

An international team of scientists has generated the highest quality reference genome to date of the world’s most popular coffee species, Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica). Their results suggest that ...

Archaeologists from Necmettin Erbakan University say they have discovered the world’s oldest known bread, dating back to 6600 BCE, at Çatalhöyük, a renowned Neolithic settlement in central Anatolia, ...

Bergmann’s rule is a scientific principle stating that animals in high-latitude, cooler climates tend to be larger than close relatives living in warmer climates. “Our study shows that the evolution ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have collected information on almost 500 stars as part of the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards (ULLYSES) survey.

Dinosaurs debuted on Earth’s stage in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial ecosystems.

The origins and dispersal of the chicken (Gallus gallus) across the ancient world is one of the most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals. The lack of agreement concerning ...

Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration have measured the width of the W boson — the electrically charged carrier of the weak force — at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery of the Higgs ...

In new research, paleontologists used X-ray microtomography to characterize the feeding apparatus of an exceptionally well-preserved specimen of the Early Devonian jawless fish Rhinopteraspis dunensis ...