Scientists have discovered a bizarre creature dubbed the "echidnapus" which they believe roamed Australia in prehistoric times. Fossilised pieces of the animal's jaw bone were found in opal fields ...
The species is among three newly identified monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, discovered from fossils in Australia that are ...
Australian researchers have discovered the oldest confirmed platypus specimen along with a new species they've named ...
The Australian platypus is one of Earth’s most unusual creatures — but there was a time when it might not have stood out in a crowd. In roughly 100-million-year-old rocks in Australia ...
The new discoveries, based on data from the James Webb Space Telescope, provide a glimpse of the early universe. When a star runs out of fuel, it explodes, as seen in this illustration ...
The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is ...
Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...
June 19, 2024 — An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to ...
A development project on a North Carolina intercoastal waterway was paused when construction crews found bones. A subsequent archaeological dig at the site turned up over 2,000 artifacts ...
The Fen Carbonatite Complex may be Europe's key to a secure rare-earth-element supply chain following the discovery of a huge deposit at the site. The heart of an ancient volcano in Norway hosts ...
Scientists have discovered a bizarre creature dubbed the "echidnapus" which they believe roamed Australia in prehistoric times. Fossilised pieces of the animal's jaw bone were found in opal fields in ...