6+ hour, 30+ min ago  (799+ words) Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark By Marla Broadfoot & Nature magazine Specks of eraser dust contain enough DNA to identify the animal products used to in books. The John Rylands Research Institute…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (695+ words) How the corpse flower came to be so weird Evolutionary studies make sense of the world's strangest plant By Jacob S. Suissa edited by Kate Wong Visitors to a botanical garden in Basel, Switzerland, attend the blooming of a corpse plant....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (652+ words) Interbreeding between Neandertals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neandertals and female humans, a new study suggests By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Neanderthal man at the human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (573+ words) How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth's dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big'and then think bigger By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings Stay connected to The Universe: Get email alerts for this weekly column…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (437+ words) Spinosaurus mirabilis was a force to be reckoned with By K. R. Callaway edited by Claire Cameron Spinosaurus mirabilis waded away from its inland home to hunt aquatic prey. Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (644+ words) Vomit is gross'but 290-million-year-old vomit is a scientific marvel By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson An artist's rendering of Dimetrodon teutonis vomiting; two of the smaller reptilian animals found in the regurgitalite are depicted in the scene as well....

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (405+ words) Maize farmers in Peru's Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson The Isla Balletas is a guano-rich island south of the Chincha Islands. Thirteen miles off…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (246+ words) The tiny Foskeia pelendonum was a plant-eating dinosaur with a "weird" anatomy, scientists say By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron A reconstruction of the dinosaur Foskeia pelendonum. A tiny plant-eating dinosaur that was about the same size of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (289+ words) Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U. S. , according to a new study By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Sauropods'humongous reptiles with a long neck and tail and thick, elephantlike…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (377+ words) A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus By K. R. Callaway edited by Andrea Thompson The bones of the Homo habilis skeleton…...