Unsurprisingly 300,000,000 years ago, the world was extremely different at ground level. Sprawling forests primarily made of club mosses and horsetails towered across much of the terrestrial landscape ...

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A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was found in South Africa's Soom Shale. Unusually, it's preserved inside ...

Of particular interest to astronomers is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two rings of ejected material shaped by the gravitational influence of the central stars. Scientists ...

The book usually includes maps or diagrams of each hole on the course, but Rotella said it also included notes of their chats. "We would have a chat every day before the round, and he would make ...

The Insect Zoo has about 175 species of arthropods, or anything with an exoskeleton - this includes insects, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and crabs, anything with an exoskeleton. Many are ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

Among these elusive creatures was Helmetia expansa, an arthropod discovered in 1918 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. For more than a century, Helmetia remained an enigma. Only a single specimen had ever ...

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

WASHINGTON - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...