An illustration of the protoplanetary disk around our sun. Dust from meteorites that crash-landed on Earth have revealed that Earth’s precursor, known as proto-Earth, formed much faster than previously thought, a new study finds. An analysis of this meteorite dust…
The temple at Lachish is the first ancient Canaanite temple found in more than 50 years and is extraordinarily well preserved, say archaeologists. A 3,000-year-old temple, built by the Canaanites around the time of the ancient Israelite invasion, has been…
A local farmer discovered this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal in Turkey. Inscriptions on the stone, dating back to the 8th century B.C. told the story of an ancient lost civilization in Turkey. Last winter, a local farmer in…
Spores of the parasite H. salminicola swim under a microscope. Those alien “eyes” are actually stinger cells, one of the few features this organism hasn’t evolved away. When the parasitic blob known as Henneguya salminicola sinks its spores into the…
Female common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) A newfound species of parasitic worm wiggles its way into the brains of baby lizards long before the reptiles hatch. How do the nematodes break into developing lizard brains? They sneak in through the…
The giant coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the biggest terrestrial crab in the world. Coconut crabs, Earth’s biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb. But when these…