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Evolution Mar 26, 2024

How lizards avoid being killed by venomous snakes

A University of Queensland-led study has shed light on how some lizards have evolved to resist deadly neurotoxins from Australia's most venomous snakes.

Other Mar 16, 2024

Saturday Citations: The volcanoes of Mars; Starship launched; 'Try our new menu item,' say Australian researchers

You never can tell when planetary scientists are going to discover a new giant volcano on Mars, but when it happens, I step out to the porch and raise my Lunar and Planetary Society Core-Mantle Boundary Rift Discovery flag ...

Evolution Feb 22, 2024

Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot

More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs.

Plants & Animals Feb 19, 2024

Scientists shocked to discover new species of green anaconda, the world's biggest snake

The green anaconda has long been considered one of the Amazon's most formidable and mysterious animals. Our new research, published in Diversity, upends scientific understanding of this magnificent creature, revealing it ...

Plants & Animals Feb 14, 2024

Charlotte, a stingray with no male companion, is pregnant in her mountain aquarium

Charlotte, a rust-colored stingray the size of a serving platter, has spent much of her life gliding around the confines of a storefront aquarium in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains.

Paleontology & Fossils Oct 30, 2023

New species of mosasaur named for Norse sea serpent

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With "transitional" traits that place it between two well-known mosasaurs, the new species is ...

Astronomy Sep 28, 2023

Keck Cosmic Web Imager offers best glimpse yet of the filamentous network that connects galaxies

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While astronomers have known about the ...

Environment Sep 18, 2023

How weather 'blocks' have triggered more extreme heat waves and floods across Europe

On several occasions this summer, Europe's weather seemed to get itself stuck, leading to prolonged heat waves and floods. In the UK, a long hot and dry spell throughout May and June gave way to a similarly persistent cool ...

Environment Aug 29, 2023

Scientists voyage to Greenland's melting sanctuary

With rugged red mountains rising on either side, a sailboat carrying scientists deftly snakes between icebergs brimming Greenland's Scoresby Fjord, as they rush to document this understudied region on the frontline of climate ...

Space Exploration Aug 11, 2023

After 17 years, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft makes its first Earth flyby

On August 12, 2023, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft passes between the sun and Earth, marking the first Earth flyby of the nearly 17-year-old mission. The visit home brings a special chance for the spacecraft to collaborate with ...

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