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Duck-billed dino with absolutely enormous honker unearthed in Mexico
By Sierra Bouchér published
The newly named dinosaur is unique to Mexico, and it's helping change scientists' understanding of dinosaur ranges across the Americas.
NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after its ultra-close approach to Earth
By Ben Turner published
New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely past our planet on Sept. 17.
'Knife-wielding orca' and alien-looking figures among 300 Nazca Lines discovered in groundbreaking AI study
By Harry Baker published
Scientists used AI to find 303 never-before-seen geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert, including abstract humanoid figures, ancient ceremonies, "decapitated heads" and a "killer whale holding a knife."
'Scuba-diving' lizards breathe underwater by wearing air bubbles on their noses — just like in a cartoon
By Elise Poore published
Scuba-diving lizards use bubbles to stay submerged in water for long periods of time.
'Martian dog' and dozens of other mysterious blobs found hiding under Mars' north pole in new 'gravity map'
By Harry Baker published
A new map that details gravitational anomalies on Mars has revealed 20 mysteriously dense blobs, including a dog-shaped mass, buried below the planet's north pole. And researchers have no clear idea where they came from.
Lost Biblical tree resurrected from 1,000-year-old mystery seed found in the Judean Desert
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct species with medicinal properties mentioned several times in the Bible.
Cave of Swimmers: 9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now the arid Sahara
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
This series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers.
2,700-year-old shields and helmet from ancient kingdom unearthed at castle in Turkey
By Owen Jarus published
The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.
James Webb Telescope goes 'extreme' and spots baby stars at the edge of the Milky Way (image)
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and producing a stunning new image.
Why can't you suffocate by holding your breath?
By Ashley Hamer published
The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate.
Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic smiley face in new James Webb telescope image
By Jamie Carter published
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
Did Roman gladiators really fight to the death?
By Owen Jarus published
Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?
South African rock art of mystery creature 'strangely flexed like a banana' might be tusked reptile that predated dinosaurs
By Julien Benoit published
Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles.
Antechinus: The tiny marsupials where males have sex until they die — then females eat their corpses
By Hannah Osborne published
All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure, then the females gobble up their corpses.
When was steel invented?
By Tom Metcalfe published
No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.
Three remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator that uses 'pincer, fork and key'
By Ximena Nelson published
In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.
Spiders on Mars and an ancient Egyptian sword
By Alexander McNamara published
Science news this week Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Humans have long been a 'geophysical force on a planetary scale,' says philosopher Timothy Morton. That's neither good nor bad.
By Alexander McNamara published
Interview The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we've been in it for millennia.
Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change
By Meg Duff published
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet.
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