T he Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian ...

Some species in the genus Arkys are not triangular at all and instead resemble bird droppings as further camouflage. These ...

The Sulawesi coelacanth ( Latimeria menadoensis ), meanwhile, remained undiscovered until scientists came across one at a ...

Night-vision goggles rely on the fact that living things, and many machines, produce heat at wavelengths far too long for the ...

Alicella gigantea is basically a big, pale shrimp-like creature that lives in the deepest depths of Earth’s oceans. It has ...

The photo was captured at 4:27 am local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of Perseverance being on Mars ...

“Dumbo octopus are a rare and unusual species that live on the seafloor. They reproduce and grow slowly, are very soft and ...

T iny pollen grains too small to see have revealed that flowers are at least 123 million years old, more than 2 million years ...

“We hence call this system the ‘cosmic joust’,” study co-lead Pasquier Noterdaeme, a researcher at the Institut ...

O striches have four kneecaps. There’s a little factoid for you. Two legs, but four kneecaps. Think it’s bananas? Rightly so, as we’ve never found knees like these in any other animal.

Nestled underneath the corpus callosum, in the middle of the brain, a tiny, pine-cone-shaped gland sits and spits out melatonin. It’s called the pineal gland, after its shape, and its main job that we ...