Giant Lungless "Worm" Found Living on Land

A new amphibian species can survive on land with no nostrils, lungs, or legs, say researchers who discovered the bizarre beast.

Cousins of prehistoric supercrocodile inhabit lost world of Sahara

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno.

Taking aim at hard-to-treat fungal infections

A team of researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park has developed a new model system to study fungal infections.

Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria

Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.

The evolution of orchids

Charles Darwin and many other scientists have long been puzzled by the evolution of orchids, the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants on Earth. Now genetic sequencing is giving scientists insights into how these plants could evolve so quickly.

First report of a South American short-faced bears' den

Here we report the first example of associated short-faced bear fossils from South America.

The evolution of bat migration

Most people know the term of "migrating bird" but "migrating bat" is not very established. However, some bat species migrate every year long or short distances.

Scientists unravel evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public.

Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history

DNA recovered from fossilised bones of the moa, a giant extinct bird, has revealed a new geological history of New Zealand, reports a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert : Discovery News

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Maya "Painted Pyramid" Reveals 1st Murals of Daily Life

A series of unusual Maya wall murals, complete with hieroglyphic captions, are providing archaeologists with a priceless look at day-to-day life in the empire circa A.D. 620 to 700.

Goat Lived Like a Reptile -- A First

A prehistoric goat survived for millennia on a resource-poor island by living like a reptile—changing its growth rate and metabolism to match the available food supply, according to a new study of the animal's bones.

Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing the submicroscopic world -- using two quantum bits (qubi …

Humans still evolving as our brains shrink

"When you develop agricultural diets, you might need adaptations to survive on them, the way the digestive systems are regulated," Hawks said.

Bats Have Creative Sex Lives

Certain primates, including humans, engage in oral sex. The practice has been documented in bonobos as well. But now researchers have documented fellatio in bats, marking the first time oral sex has been seen in an animal other than a primate.

An estimate of the chemical composition of Titan's lakes

Hundreds of radar-dark patches interpreted as lakes have been discovered in the north and south polar regions of Titan.

Asteroids were born big

How big were the first planetesimals? We attempt to answer this question by conducting coagulation simulations in which the planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and form larger bodies and planetary embryos. [...] We find that, if the initial planetesimals were small (e.g.

Bug wears armor made of poo

A beetle apparently protects itself by constructing armor made from excrement, researchers now reveal.

'Earth Claw': New Species Of Vegetarian Dinosaur Close To Common Ancestor Of Gigantic Sauropods

The discovery of a new species of dinosaur from the early Jurassic period (approximately 195 million years old and seven metres long) has been announced and described by Dr Adam Yates, the primary investigator and a palaeontologist from the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontolog …

Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought

The scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 billion-year-old ocean floor rocks.

Babies with an accent

In the first days of their lives, French infants already cry in a different way to German babies.

Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton

Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us.

Oldest known spider's web found in amber

Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known.

Bacteria 'launch a shield' to resist attack

Bacteria that cause chronic lung infections can communicate with each other to form a deadly shield against the body's natural defenses.

First Evidence For A Second Breeding Season Among Migratory Songbirds

Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.

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