Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple species of fungi for food, but the history of fungus-ant co-evolution is poorly known. In a new study published this week in the journal Science, researchers ...

During the Mesozoic era, between 250 and 120 million years ago, an ancient seafloor sank deep into Earth in the East Pacific Rise, a tectonic plate boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding new image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4694. NGC 4694 lies approximately 54 million light-years from Earth in the ...

The newly-developed map of the local Universe is based on the motions of 56,000 galaxies, according to a team of astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. “Mapping the ...

Geological observations of Mars indicate a dense early atmosphere ranging from 0.25 to 4 bar of carbon dioxide. But 3.5 billion years ago, the Martian atmosphere thinned rapidly to approximately 0.054 ...

Ceres is a key object in understanding the evolution of small bodies and is the only dwarf planet to have been orbited by a spacecraft, NASA’s Dawn mission. Dawn data paint an inconclusive picture of ...

Sea robins are unusual ocean fish that possess specialized leg-like appendages used to ‘walk’ along the sea floor. New research shows that these appendages aren’t just used for walking; in fact, they ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species in the tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus Labocania, based on a partial skeleton found in Coahuila, Mexico. The newly-discovered dinosaur ...

Astronomers using the Keck II 10-m telescope have discovered evidence for an Earth-mass planet and a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet has a mass of 1.9 Earth masses and orbits the ...

“There are many types of flatworms, but most of them are aquatic,” said North Carolina State University diagnostic entomologist Matt Bertone. “Most of the flatworms that you do find on land exist in ...

Despite the long history of consumption of fermented dairy, little is known about how the fermented microbes were utilized and evolved over human history. By retrieving ancient DNA of 3,500-year-old ...

Until now, the fungus gnat genus Robsonomyia was represented by two living species: Robsonomyia reducta from North America and Robsonomyia sciaraeformis from Asia. Paleontologists have now found two ...