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University of Bristol The palaeontologists used 3D rendering to reveal more details about the fossil Palaeontologists have identified a new species of dinosaur – 125 years after its fossil was found. The team from the University of Bristol used modern digital scanning to reveal more detail on the fossilised jawbone, which was first found in Penarth, South Wales, in 1899 …

The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over. After a decade of back-and-forth with skeptics, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team are not going to let their hypothesis die: that a small-brained species called Homo naledi was culturally burying their dead long before modern humans were. Their latest peer-reviewed …

This month, there’s one story on everybody’s minds. I’m speaking, of course, about the Iberian harvester ant queens who can clone ants of an entirely different species to breed a subaltern army of hybrid ants whose only purpose is to serve them. If you, too, have been transfixed by their story and are eager to learn more about these ants’ …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up. A study …

Several new species of coelacanths that lived at the end of the Triassic period, some 200 million years ago, have been identified from museum specimens unearthed over 150 years ago in the United Kingdom. An artist’s reconstruction of a large mawsoniid coelacanth from the British Rhaetian. Image credit: Daniel Phillips. Coelacanths are evolutionarily unique lobe-finned fishes that first appeared in …

Three new species of snailfish discovered in Pacific Ocean depths  Oceanographic Magazine A New, ‘Adorable’ Deep-Sea Fish Swims Into View  The New York Times Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Fish Named in Honor of Whitman Professor  Whitman College MBARI’s advanced underwater technology reveals a new species of deep-sea snailfish  MBARI Scientists Have Filmed A New Species Of Snailfish, And We’re Having A Hard Time Believing It’s …

In 1977, a rhino was born at Dvůr Králové Zoo. She was named Nasi, and came as a bit of a surprised because her mother, a northern white rhino called Nasima, had only had contact with one male rhino. Why was that so strange? Well, he was an entirely different species. Hybrids like Nasi crop up from time to time, …

In 2019, scientists spotted something strange thousands of meters below the ocean surface. There, they filmed a pink bumpy blob with cartoonishly big eyes and more pectoral fin-rays than you could shake a stick at. Now, they’ve been able to confirm that this was a new-to-science species. It’s a snailfish, and better yet, it’s one of three new-to-science species described …

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up. A study published Monday in the journal Nature Microbiology …

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the nearby wild. No other animal on Earth is known to do this, and it’s hard for even scientists to believe. “It’s an absolutely fantastic, bizarre story of a system that allows things to happen that seem …