The tardigrade trapped in amber is an unprecedented species

[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

Hundreds of strange three-eyed “dinosaur shrimps” spotted at national monument

[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

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Completes Mission

[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