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Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in astonishing detail--not in typical rock like ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth's deepest mantle is being deformed--and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried thousands of kilometers underground. Using a massive global dataset of seismic waves, they found that most deformation ...

A bizarre crocodile relative from the age of dinosaurs is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient reptiles. This poodle-sized creature, called Sonselasuchus cedrus, appears to have started life walking on all fours before shifting . ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first breathed on land. This tiny creature, Captorhinus aguti, reveals the earliest known version of the rib-powered breathing system ...

Scientists at UC Irvine have found a way to potentially reverse age-related vision loss by targeting the ELOVL2 "aging gene" and restoring vital fatty acids in the retina. Their experiments in mice show that supplementing with specific ...

Ancient DNA from a tomb near Paris reveals a shocking prehistoric reset: one population vanished and was replaced by newcomers from the south. The two groups show no genetic connection, signaling a major upheaval around 3000 BC. Disease, including .. ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space Telescope, they found less ammonia than expected- ...

A vivid green pitviper hiding in Sichuan's misty mountains has been revealed as a completely new species. Scientists had overlooked it for decades, assuming it was a common snake--until DNA analysis proved otherwise. Named after Laozi, it features .. ...

A mysterious magnetic material once thought to host an exotic "quantum spin liquid" has turned out to be something entirely different--and possibly just as intriguing. Scientists studying cerium magnesium hexalluminate found it showed the hallmark .. ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For decades, researchers suspected this might be possible ...