[ad_1] Scientists have discovered an incredibly rare fossil suspended in 16 million-year-old amber: a never-before-seen tardigrade species, a chubby aquatic creature that rarely appears in the fossil record. Modern tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, can be found in just about any environment with liquid water, from ocean depths to thin films … Read more
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[ad_1] The front view of a long-tailed tadpole shrimp, or triops longicaudatus, shows its third eye. The species is called a living fossil because it has had the same morphology for 70 million years. Getty Images Tourists roaming Wupatki National Monument, an ancestral Puebloan site in Arizona, recently came across hundreds of unlikely visitors – … Read more
[ad_1] This side view of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus shows what it looks like with a stereomicroscope. Ninon Robin (Harvard / NJIT) A long, long time ago, a tiny animal found its end in a sticky tree resin trap. Sixteen million years later, this tiny tardigrade fossil was discovered in Dominican amber. He is now a sort … Read more
[ad_1] Home security cameras in the Denver area captured the moment a fireball shone in the sky early in the morning on Sunday. The American Meteor Society has received more than 40 reports of the meteor, which could be seen by those who wake up around 4:30 a.m. Doug Robinson, from Boulder, said: “It was … Read more
[ad_1] After the instrument completed its one-year primary mission in Earth orbit, NASA extended the mission to collect more data due to its exceptional timing stability. But before the tech demo turns off on September 18, the mission worked overtime to extract as much data as possible in its final days. “The Deep Space Atomic … Read more
[ad_1] Found in a Welsh quarry, the newly identified dinosaur species is a theropod, a group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds. About a meter (or 3.28 feet) long – including its tail – it is believed to have lived around 200 to 215 million years ago, at the dawn of dinosaur evolution. … Read more
[ad_1] NASA is a page from the action movie “Armageddon” – launching a spaceship to hit the moon from an asteroid in a test to deflect a space rock threatening our planet. The Space Agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is scheduled to take off at 1:20 a.m. EST on November 24 aboard a … Read more
[ad_1] This drawing by Adam Paulsen shows his sighting of the dawn of Godthaab, Greenland, November 15, 1882. (Image credit: Adam Paulsen / The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science / CC By 4.0) It is a question that has bewildered observers for centuries: Do the fantastic green and crimson lights of the … Read more
[ad_1] A Chinese lander and rover are still operational more than 1,000 Earth days after making a historic first landing on the far side of the moon. The Chang’e 4 The lander carrying the Yutu 2 rover landed in the Von Kármán crater on January 2, 2019, and the robotic mission has since explored the … Read more