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The United States has administered more than 3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for the first time over two consecutive days, according to official figures released Sunday. New numbers from the …

We tend to think of supermassive black holes as relatively stationary things, sitting there in the middle of a galaxy while everything else revolves around it. But that’s not always the case, …

If you look far enough back in time, a pattern may emerge. After studying thousands of ancient fossils, paleontologist Jack Sepkoski identified such a thing in 1981: an epic sequence of life …

Having dominated the planet’s surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion about 66 million years ago at the hottest end of an asteroid’s impact with …

A team of American scientists has shown that the offspring of huge carnivorous dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus RexGrowing from the size of house cats to towering monsters, they reshaped their ecosystems by …

Vampire squid have lurked in the dark corners of the ocean for 30 million years, a new analysis of a long-lost fossil. Modern vampire squidVampyroteuthis infernalis) can thrive in deep, oxygen-poor ocean …

In a feat at the limit of our scientific capabilities, an international team of geneticists has recovered and sequenced the oldest DNA to date. From the teeth of three ancient mammoths that …

China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to land on the Red Planet later this year. The spacecraft, launched in …

A German collector discovered a remarkable fossilized tick that suffered multiple unfortunate incidents about 100 million years ago. First, the unfortunate twitch hit a cobweb. The spider in the net quickly wrapped …

A 100-million-year-old piece of Burmese amber has frozen in time what was undoubtedly the worst day of an insect's life. The specimen, discovered by a German collector who was touring Myanmar in …