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Western Lowland Gorillas Display Territorial Behavior, New Study Says Groups of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) recognize ownership of specific regions; they are also more likely to avoid contact with other groups the closer they are to the centre of their neighbors’ home range, for fear of conflict, according …

Paleontologists Find New Dinosaur Tracks on Scotland’s Isle of Skye The footprints of stegosaurs, carnivorous theropods and huge herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs that date back to 170 million years ago (Middle Jurassic epoch) have been discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Fossil tracks left by a stegosaur on the Isle …

Archaeologists Unearth Long-Lost Capital of Ancient Maya Kingdom Archaeologists excavating the site of Lacanja Tzeltal in Mexico have discovered the ruins of the capital of a kingdom known from Classic period Maya inscriptions as Sak Tz’i’ (White Dog). Among their findings is a trove of Maya monuments, one of which …

Astronomers Spot Ancient Black Hole Beaming Radiation Toward Earth The universe is crawling with black holes — we’ve even taken a picture of one. Despite that, these extreme stellar objects never stop surprising astronomers. A team from the University of Insubria in Italy spotted a supermassive black hole beaming a …

Preserves Skull of Hummingbird-Sized Dinosaur Paleontologists have actually discovered an extremely unspoiled and also small head of a formerly unidentified bird-like dinosaur types in an item of Cretaceous-period brownish-yellow from north Myanmar. Photograph, calculated tomography scans as well as expository illustrations of the Oculudentavis khaungraaea sampling:(a)picture of the brownish-yellow item …

Discovered in Indonesia A group of scientists from Louisiana State University, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Museums Victoria as well as the University of Melbourne has actually found a brand-new varieties of musk shrew living on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. The Sulawesi hairy-tailed shrew(Crocidura caudipilosa). Picture credit report: Kevin Rowe, Museums Victoria. …

An analysis of DNA from wild populations of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has found that there is not just one species but enough genetic differences to recognize two distinct species. The Chinese red panda (Ailurus styani). Image credit: Yunfang Xiu, Straits (Fuzhou) Giant Panda Research and Exchange Center, China. …

A team of biologists from the Central Mindanao University has discovered a new endemic species of carnivorous plant in the montane tropical rainforests of Philippines. Upper pitchers on living plants of Nepenthes cabanae. Image credit: N.E. Lagunday. The newly-discovered species belongs to Nepenthes, a genus of tropical pitcher plants in …

  The Mars of today is an arid and (presumably) lifeless world. That was not always the case, though. Evidence from Curiosity and other missions proves Mars once had an atmosphere and liquid water, but then its magnetic field vanished. The InSight lander has now shown there’s still more magnetic …

Has Turbulent Past A brand-new research study by Curtin University scientists has actually clarified the very early days of Vesta, the 2nd biggest planet of the major belt and also the 4th such challenge be found.< a href=”http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge7/image_8196e-Vesta.jpg”> As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft removes for its following location, this mosaic manufactures …