Science

An Australian lizard in the same genus as the komodo dragon has been found harboring secret bone chainmail under their scaly skin. Goannas – a name that encompasses several Australian species – are not the only monitor lizards with this fascinating adaptation, either. A wild new study has found tens of monitor lizard species sporting hidden osteoderms; tiny bones that …

A couple of months ago, PetaPixel reported on a remarkable security camera video that recorded the first-ever view of the Earth’s surface shifting along a major fault line during a massive earthquake. But further reserach has revealed it shows even more than that. Scientists continuing to study the surreal video footage have now found that it also provides the first …

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could validate long-held assumptions about the early universe. The discovery, detailed in a recent study submitted to Nature, revolves around the detection of AMORE6, a galaxy that may be a rare example of what scientists have been searching for: a pristine, zero-metallicity galaxy. This galaxy, with …

The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land. A fresh look at a 500-million-year-old fossil by researchers from the University of Arizona and Lycoming College in the US and King’s College London has revealed remarkable similarities between the brains of extinct marine arthropods and modern-day arachnids. The discovery …

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account for all the plastic ever produced. A new study has just tracked down a large portion of it. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht …

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known fossilized animal sperm, found preserved in a 50-million-year-old cocoon from Antarctica. This unprecedented finding pushes back the timeline of such discoveries by a full 10 million years. A Remarkable Discovery in Antarctica The discovery was made by Dr. Benjamin Bomfleur from the Swedish Museum of Natural History and his research team. The sperm, which …

This image is a simulation based on groundbreaking new images captured by an international team of astronomers. The team detected the very faint glow from the gas inside cosmic filaments, shown here in white. Where these filaments intersect, the gas inside galaxies, which helps create new stars, is shown in red/orange. | Credit: © Alejandro Benitez-Llambay/Universität Mailand-Bicocca/MPA An international team …

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