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Sand miners initially stumbled upon the fossils in 2011, but only recently have scientists identified their age and taxonomy. Harold Berghuis, an archaeologist from the University of Leiden, commented on the significance of these findings by…

The scene near Starkville, Mississippi, was calm, yet something surprising was hidden below the surface. A small team of researchers was exploring local creek beds and stumbled upon a giant vertebra so large it broke their expectations.

They…

More evidence that trees display group cognition and communication has arrived from the Dolomites where a multidisciplinary team monitored a forest during a…

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Stand up paddle boarding has been variously described in Jewish and Israeli sources as “a good metaphor for life” and as an activity for which the Jewish state, and particularly its Dead Sea, is…

The rate at which sea levels rise is increasing, researchers say, and last year the levels climbed more than 30% over what was expected.

What’s happening?

NASA announced that global sea levels rose by 0.23 inches in 2024, exceeding the predicted…

A soft-shelled egg fossil discovered in Antarctica is forcing scientists to rethink how ancient marine reptiles reproduced. At an estimated 68 million years old and comparable in size to a football, the egg—named Antarcticoolithus bradyi—is…

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, walked up just as the first space photo…

The remains were first found in 1998 in a shallow rock shelter in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley. Right from the beginning, the skeleton’s features puzzled scientists– it showed a mix of traits seen in both early modern humans and Neanderthals,…