Brain Game: If you could bring an extinct animal ... Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo curled up and ready to hatch like a bird The museum previously had dinosaur exhibits ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

Tiny fragments of plastic have been found scattered in snow across multiple Antarctic deep field camps. What’s worrying about ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study shows that asymptomatic brain metastasis is more common in stage 4 breast cancer patients than previously believed. The study suggests that doctors may need to ...

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

The samples may arrive sooner. A Louisiana patient has died from bird flu. It's the first bird flu death in the US. Public health risk remains low, officials report. Science 2025-01-02T21:48:17Z ...