Millions of years before Vikings crossed the Atlantic, crocodiles swam thousands of kilometres from Africa to colonise the Americas. The…
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Bats Lend an Ear to Sonar Tech
Bats create a three-dimensional acoustic image of insects as they swoop through jungles, fields and forests. Now, bio-engineers have put…
Blind, Legless Lizard Discovered
First on record in Cambodia and the first reptile to be both discovered and formally described in a scientific journal…
Crocodile God Temple Featured Croc Nursery
Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi…
Deep Magma Ocean Fuels Hundreds of Volcanoes on Jupiter Moon
There’s a deep ocean of magma lurking beneath the crust of Jupiter‘s moon Io, a new study says. Only slightly…
Neanderthals Made a Last Stand!
A hardy band of Neanderthals may have made a last stand for their species at a remote outpost in subarctic…
How your brain knows what’s next!
The shifting bars and growing circles in this video may seem familiar – but they might help to explain how…
Your Heart Can Sync With a Loved One’s
Watching a friend or relative in a stressful situation can loosely synchronize both of your heart rates, experiments at a…
Asteroids make life’s raw materials
WERE asteroids the factories that created life’s building blocks? For the first time, rocks from an asteroid have been shown…
New Species of Tiger Stingray Named
An Amazon stingray known as the tiger ray has finally earned its scientific stripes: It’s been officially recognized as a…