The authors acknowledge the crystals they made, while “predominantly hexagonal diamonds” still contain “trace imperfections ...

They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 million years ago, during the Oligocene. So far, fossils belonging to this family ...

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What fish have instead of a tongue is something called a basihyal, a bony slab sitting on the floor of the mouth that looks a ...

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To test the theory, the study authors examined ethnographic reports from 60 cultures around the world. Summing up their ...

Yawning is seen in a diverse range of animal species, both those that live on land and underwater, but do all animals yawn? We wanted to know, too.

The good-ish news for any water-loving arachnophobes out there is that diving bell spiders are at least quite small, measuring between 8 to 15 millimeters (0.3 to 0.6 inches) in length, so could be ...

However, the most recent definition of long COVID in the US, proposed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

For a croc, it seems “surf’s up” is within an hour of the tide changing, as this was the window during which they would begin ...

This discovery brings closure to a decades-long mystery and reminds us of the human stories embedded in the history of ...