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Facebook Tweet Email Link Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species with a very distinctive feature, a sail-like structure running down its back, the Natural History Museum in London announced on Friday. The bones of Istiorachis macarthurae, named in honor of record-breaking British sailor Ellen MacArthur, were uncovered on the Isle of Wight, a small island just off the south …

LONDON — A former PhD student analyzing 125-million-year-old fossils has made waves with the discovery of a new species of dinosaur that had a sail on its back. The findings, published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology on Friday, relate to fossils originally excavated in the 1970s on the Isle of Wight, a small island off England’s south coast. The …

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Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old  Archaeology News Online Magazine Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old  Phys.org Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age  Popular Science 300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor  IFLScience Archaeology breakthrough as mystery of 286,000-year-old skull finally ‘solved’  Daily Express Source …

A tan-brown lizard dashed across sun-warmed rock in coastal Angola and ran straight into the scientific record. It belonged to a trio of day geckos that science had never formally described. The new species, all from Namibia’s neighbor to the north, include the large-spotted Namib day gecko, Rhoptropus megocellus, alongside R. minimus and R. crypticus. They were documented after multi-year …

Officials say the invasive Asian longhorned tick has been found in Maine for the first time. The tick was found in Cumberland County. The tick was submitted through University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s passive tick surveillance program and identified by staff at the UMaine Extension Tick Lab. UMaine says this marks the first known occurrence of the species in the …

Weight-loss wonder jabs such as Mounjaro and Wegovy are helping to transform the lives and health of millions. But one in five users stop taking these drugs within a year, due to intolerable side-effects ranging from nausea and vomiting to gallstones and pancreatitis – a serious infection of the pancreas. The majority then pile weight back on, as studies show …

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine creatures with a distinctly phallic appearance. There are more than 20 known species living across the world’s oceans today, as well as a number …

Officials say the invasive Asian longhorned tick has been found in Maine for the first time. The tick was found in Cumberland County. The tick was submitted through University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s passive tick surveillance program and identified by staff at the UMaine Extension Tick Lab. UMaine says this marks the first known occurrence of the species in the …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for “morning star” — may be a star cluster, a group of stars that are …