These are polymetallic nodules with Plenaster craigi. White line is 1 cm.
Credit: Adrian Glover, Thomas Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund
Less than half of our planet's surface is covered by land. The rest is water, and this environment is home to an...
This image shows an artist rendition of Nasutoceratops.
Credit: Lukas Panzarin
A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The huge plant-eater inhabited Laramidia, a landmass formed when a shallow sea flooded...
These are CT scan images of the skull roof (front bone in pink, parietal in green) and brain (in blue) of, top to bottom, a chicken, the birdlike dinosaur Zanabazar, the primitive dinosaur Herrerasaurus, and Proterosuchus, an ancestral form...
The skull of a Neanderthal known as Shanidar 1 shows signs of a blow to the head received at an early age.
Credit: Erik Trinkaus
An older Neanderthal from about 50,000 years ago, who had suffered multiple injuries and other degenerations,...
This is s dead staghorn Coral.
Credit: Arc Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies
One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found.
An international team of scientists, including Dr Alex Dunhill...
Wolves are considerably better imitators than dogs.
Credit: Walter Vorbeck
Although wolves and dogs are closely related, they show some striking differences. Scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have undertaken experiments that suggest that...
The dogs were trained to touch symbols on a screen using their nose.
Credit: Lisa Wallis/Vetmeduni Vienna
The effect of aging on cognitive processes such as learning, memory and logical reasoning have so far been studied almost exclusively in people.
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When the babies saw a snake or a spider (second row) instead of a flower or a fish (first row) of the same size and colour, their pupils enlarged significantly (red versus green curve). This is a distinct signal...
The compound L-HIPPO is being used by researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan to eradicate HIV in viral reservoir cells.
Credit: Associate Professor Mikako Fujita
With the successful suppression of the AIDS virus (HIV) through medication, the focus turns toward its...
This image shows the binding of alkyl ligand functionalized gold nanoparticles with protonated amine end groups (the blue spheres) to double stranded DNA.
Credit: Jessica Nash, North Carolina State University
Researchers at North Carolina State University have used computational modelling to...
This is a white-lipped peccary, which is likely a key mammal in the carbon dynamics of tropical forest soils. It may influence the carbon cycle in several ways, such as by burying items as it roots through soils and...
