Longest Insect Migration

The largest and longest mass insect migration has been discovered to be millions of dragonflies traveling from southern India to the coast of Africa, an annual trek of thousands of miles across open ocean.

Pot-Bellied Dinosaur Discovered

A new type of pot-bellied dinosaur of the herbivorous therizinosaur group, believed to be the ancestors of carnivores like Velociraptor, has been discovered in southern Utah.

Oldest Supernovae Observed

Using multiple images of distant galaxies, astronomers have recorded faint images of the two oldest known supernovae explosions to date, both occurring about 11 billion years ago.

Large Dinosaurs Found in Australia

Three new large dinosaur species have been discovered in Australia including a large carnivore similar to a Velociraptor, the first such large predator known to have lived on that continent.

Ant Colony Spans Globe

Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) living in Europe, the United States and Japan recognize each other as belonging to a single interrelated super-colony spanning the six populated continents.

Asian Primate Fossils Found

New early primate fossils recently discovered in Myanmar lend support to the idea that human ancestors originated in Asia rather than Africa.

Shuttle Exhaust Explains Tunguska

Observations of the patterns of water vapor in the exhaust plumes of NASA's Space Shuttle have been used to explain the mysterious Tunguska event of 1908 as the impact and explosion of an icy comet in Siberia.

Memory Formation Observed

The first image of a memory being formed in the brain of a sea slug has been observed directly as the protein synthesis at the neural synapses record the event.

Evidence of Water on Saturn Moon

Water plumes observed erupting from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus may suggest the existence of a subsurface ocean.

Tropical Elephant Fossils Found

A rare and almost perfectly preserved and complete fossilized skeleton of a 200,000-year-old giant elephant was discovered buried in a prehistoric riverbed in Java.

Lack of Sunspot Activity Explained

The recent minimum in sunspot activity over the past two years has been explained by the use of helioseismology to discover a slow-moving jet stream 7000 km below the Sun's surface.

Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars

The first conclusive geological evidence has been found of the existence of an ancient lake of water on the surface of Mars more than 3 billion years ago.

Bacteria Alive after 120,000 Years

A new prehistoric species of bacteria has been discovered two miles deep under a glacier in Greenland, still viable after 120,000 years.

Neanderthal Fossil Found in North Sea

A 60,000-year-old skull fragment from a Neanderthal male has been dredged up from the sea bed at a site in the North Sea.