Scientists have just unearthed the fascinating ancient monotreme dubbed the echidnapus at Australia’s Lightning Ridge, a creature that lived 100 million years ago. This ancient blend of echidna and ...

36 specimens, present at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada, were examined. (Photo: Getty) Evolution has been one of the ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a mysterious Cuban anole Benjamin Hack A CT scan reconstruction of USNM ...

Dailymotion Frozen penguin among millions of specimens moved to new home at CSIRO’s National Collections Building Posted: 28 March 2025 | Last updated: 29 March 2025 The Australian National ...

Paleontologists studied 16 specimens of the tiny wasp preserved in amber dating back to the Cretaceous period that was previously unearthed in Myanmar. The previously unknown species, now named ...

Specimens of Sirenobethylus charybdis, or S. charybdis, named after the Greek mythological sea monster Charybdis, would use their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey ...

Lined with hairy bristles, the lower half of this paddle-shaped structure appeared frozen into different positions across the numerous specimens like a frame-by-frame replay, hinting at its grasping, ...

He's examined specimens from similar settings — such as a piece of wood from a kimberlite pipe in the N.W.T. in 2007 — that looked charred only on the outside. It meant that Reyes and a ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey. Research ...

Named Sirenobethylus charybdis, the insect is known from multiple specimens found preserved in amber from about 99 million years ago. At a glance it looks more or less like a wasp you’d shoo ...

who was described by former Toffees manager Sean Dyche as a “specimen” who “seems to relish going into battle with big forwards” in The Daily Mail in November 2023. The Toffees’ high ...