Tag Archives: SPECIES

An excavation in Argentina has unearthed a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur, and the tyrannosaurus-like predator has been given a name that fits what we know so far: Llukalkan aliocranianus, or ‘the …

Make a caramel crocodile. Take her head and pull her until her neck extends a good few feet from her body. If you squint, this could be what a strange looking Triassic …

Finding out when the first human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, as it was such an important evolutionary step. Surprisingly, the projected date of …

An orangutan in Indonesia, one of the biodiversity hotspots described by the research team.Photo: CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP via Getty Images (fake images) Nine years ago, a team of Yale environmentalists drew …

The collection of species of bacteria and fungi that live among us is growing, and this is no exception in low-gravity environments, such as the International Space Station (ISS). Researchers from the …

A “lunar ark” hidden within the lava tubes of the Moon could preserve the sperm, eggs and seeds of millions of species on Earth, a group of scientists has proposed. The ark, …

Scientists have found another piece to the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-old evolutionary mystery. All bats, except the fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family …

The coronavirus pandemic has made the world obsessed with viruses like no other time in living memory, but new evidence reveals that humans do not even notice the vast extent of viral …

The pollen grains of flowering plants were meant to fly, sometimes traveling hundreds of kilometers with the wind. Now it appears that the climate crisis has accelerated that journey, causing allergy season …

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 …