Scientists have discovered a strange new toad species smaller than a fingernail in a rainforest in northeast Brazil, shedding more light on the rich diversity of life forms in the region. The species reaches less than 1cm in length as adults and has been named Brachycephalus dacnis after the conservationContinue Reading
Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 2,500-year-old burial of an Iron Age woman in Sweden with a small knife stuck to her grave. The latest dig at the ancient cemetery site in Pryssgården in eastern Sweden unravelled nearly 50 burials dating to between 500 BC and 400 AD. Of these burials,Continue Reading
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient Bronze Age town under an oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Madinah province that was slowly occupied from 2400 BC. Researchers say the ancient town, dubbed al-Natah, was a city transforming from a nomadic cattle-herding lifestyle into a complex urban settlement. The town’s remains areContinue Reading
Archaeologists were shocked to unearth an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor. Egyptian authorities said teams from Egypt and the United States discovered the tomb in the South Asasif necropolis, next to the Temple of Hatshepsut on the Nile’s West Bank in Luxor. Egypt’sContinue Reading
Kissing in humans evolved as a symbolic expression of love from grooming behaviours seen in ancestral great apes, a comprehensive new study says. The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans across civilisations and societies have shown affection, intimacy, or social bonding, most often in a way thatContinue Reading
Monkeys will never have the capacity to write the complete works of William Shakespeare, a study has found. It challenges the long-held theory of probability that, given an infinite period of time, monkeys pressing keys at random on a typewriter would eventually be able to reproduce the famous texts. Researchers fromContinue Reading
Researchers are exposing the secrets of the world’s southernmost mammal, the Weddell seal. These seals, found in Antarctica’s Erebus Bay, live in rapidly changing environments. They can weigh up to 1,320 pounds, or four times as much as a giant panda. They’re sometimes even bigger than a grand piano, measuringContinue Reading
A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever, could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of the ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years. Named Gondwanax paraisensis, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog withContinue Reading
Scientists in Virginia are looking for mysterious dark matter – and have turned to really old rocks. The substance, which makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, shapes and affects the cosmos. But it is entirely invisible and remains undetectable by normal sensors and techniques.Continue Reading
As the old adage goes, a monkey left with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare purely by chance. The so-called Infinite Monkeys Theorem has long been used to demonstate the principles of probability and randomness, having been widely referencedContinue Reading
