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This Austrian dinosaur probably heard very little

Researchers arrive at surprising new insights about an armored Ankylosaurus: it was slow and deaf. Millions of years ago, several special dinosaurs lived on...

Wall hedges: widening announced

The strips of bushes and trees between fields are important refuges for European biodiversity. (Photo: Kathrin Litza / University of Bremen) Like elongated oases,...

Donkey hybrid bred 4,500 years ago

Hunting wild donkeys in Nineveh, Mesopotamia. (Images: Eva-Maria Geigl / IJM / CNRS-Université de Paris Even before domesticated horses were introduced to Mesopotamia around...

On the trail of cosmic superintelligences

What other intelligent beings could there be in the universe? (Image: bjdlzx/iStock) Are we alone in space? The search for signals from extraterrestrial...

Rings explain structure of the solar system

Protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri. (Image: © ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) How did the solar system get its typical structure? And why...

Cosmic tadpole with 280,000 light-year tail flees a ‘crime scene’

This long tail probably formed after a collision with another galaxy. The Tadpole System is located 420 million light-years from Earth. That's about...

Thousands of still unknown insects in Germany

gall midge and humpback fly. (Image: C. Chimeno, SNSB-ZSM) Even the supposedly well-researched world of insects in Germany still has a lot of new...

UV iridescence on and off

Orange Sulfur moth with UV photograph overlays showing iridescence in ultraviolet light. (Image: Vincent Ficarrotta / The George Washington University) How do related species...

Once again, astronomers believe they have spotted an exomoon – but confirmation could be years away

An exoplanet Kepler 1708b may be circling 5,500 light-years from Earth. In recent years, astronomers have discovered thousands of candidate exoplanets. And from...

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