Meet the amazing, beautiful and weird mammals, birds, insects, fishes, arthropods, sponges, amphibians and crustaceans discovered in 2012.
Lesula monkey...
A team of biologists from the University of Vigo, Spain, and the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park in Cuba, has identified two new species of Caribbean...
A new research published in the open access journal PLoS-ONE has revealed previously unknown differences in the food habits of saber-toothed cats and American...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed a temple and a cache of sacred vessels dating from around 738 BC during excavations...
According to a team of astronomers led by Dr Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of Stanford University, so-called ‘ultramassive black holes’ may be more abundant...
British scientists have identified for the first time a particular ‘secondary microflora component’ that helps give blue cheese its distinctive aroma.
Blue...
European scientists have identified in mice a previously unknown group of brain nerve cells, or neurons, that regulate cardiovascular functions such as...
According to a team of scientists headed by Prof Guillermo Ortí of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the extinct megapiranha (Megapiranha paranensis)...
U.S. scientists have discovered that a meteorite that fell over El Dorado County in northern California this past spring was the rarest type known to have...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189.
This is the planetary nebula NGC...
7,000-year-old water wells unearthed in eastern Germany suggest that prehistoric farmers in Europe were skilled carpenters long before metal was discovered...
An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of mosasaur that lived in freshwater environments about 84 million years ago.
According...
Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute have found the radioactive isotope iron-60...
Emotion helps us recognize words more accurately and quicker, however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech, according...
According to an international team of astronomers, bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in...
A miniature extraterrestrial version of the Nile River has been spotted on the largest moon of Saturn by ESA’s Cassini spacecraft.
This Cassini image...
U.S.-Spanish scientists have found evidence of what they say is the oldest known camouflaging behavior in insects.
This is an artist’s reconstruction...
