Science News Archive

New Model for Intermediate Black Hole Formation Parallels Growth of Giant Planets

Thu, 18 July 2012 14:00 EDT

Project 1640 Achieves Unprecedented High-contrast Imaging, Begins Survey At Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope

Thu, 5 July 2012 14:00 EDT

Magalosaur Fossil Represents 1st Feathered Dinosaur Not Closely Related to Birds

Mon, 2 July 2012 14:00 EDT

Researchers say a Change in Developmental Timing was Crucial in Evolutionary Shift from Dinosaurs to Birds

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:00 EDT

Project Allows New Forms of Client Software to Join Genetic Surveillance

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00 EDT

Research Shows That Massive Herbivores Were Declining, Carnivores and Smaller Plant-eaters Were Not

Tue, 1 May 2012 14:00 EDT

Findings Show That Mobile Shelled Mollusk Stayed Put If Conditions Were Right

Mon, 16 April 2012 14:00 EDT

Microraptor's Plumage Could Offer Insight into Early Evolution of Feathers

Thurs, 8 March 2012 14:00 EST

Museum Scientists Help Orthodox Union Analyze Nematodes in Canned Sardines, Capelin Eggs

Thurs, 14 February 2012 17:00 EST

Major Online Project is Next Step in the Evolution of Darwin Digital Scholarship

Thurs, 9 February 2012 12:00 EST

3,300-Year-Old Jadeitite Tool Leads to New Potential Geological Source

Tues, 26 Jan 2012 17:00 EST

Identifying evidence of retroviruses and herpesviruses in illegally imported wildlife products confiscated at several U.S. international airports

Tues, 10 Jan 2012 17:00 EST

Fossil provides evidence of early symbosis between fungi and tropical trees

Thurs, 21 Dec 2011 17:00 EST

New book from American Museum of Natural History anthropologist explores ancient city of Huánco Pampa

Thurs, 21 Dec 2011 12:00 EST

New York Plant Genomics Consortium maps evolutionary relationships, gene functions for 150 species

Thurs, 15 Dec 2011 17:00 EST

New finds include four species from New York; one named Gotham for New York City

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 5:00 EST

Laser Art Installation opens in conjunction with the new exhibition Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration

Thurs, 3 Nov 2011 12:00 EST

DNA analysis shows two separate species, suggests change in conservation management

Mon, 26 Sept 2011 12:00 EST

Access for All: Charles Darwin's Library is Available Online

Fri, 24 June 2011 1:00 EST

Paleontologists solve a puzzle with a new fossil from China.

Wed, 13 April 2011 1:00 EST

Synchrotron Light Sees into Extinct Marine Invertebrates to Reveal Life History

Thur, 6 January 2011 2:00 EST

Celebrating the year-end postings from Parasite of the Day

Thur, 23 December 2010 10:20 EST

Dolphins along the coast of Argentina could experience a significant loss of genetic diversity

Mon, 20 December 2010 11:15 EST

Celebrating hauntingly photogenic natural history andresearch from the Division of Invertebrate Zoology

Mon, 8 November 2010 17:15 EDT

New statistical model demonstrates that trophic mismatchfeeds bears without exterminating snow geese

Mon, 8 November 2010 17:12 EDT

Vast Amber Deposit From India Described by International Team

Mon, 25 October 2010 17:45 EDT

Insight Into Ammonite Life History From Well-Preserved "Oases in Water"

Fri, 15 October 2010 17:45 EDT

Dinosaur Lineage Emerged Soon After Massive Permian Extinction

Wed, 06 October 2010 17:45 EDT

Tyrannosaurs are More than Large Carnivores at the Top of the Food Chain

Thurs, 16 September 2010 17:45 EDT

New Velociraptor Relative had Stocky Limbs and Two Claws on Its Feet

Mon, 30 August 2010 17:45 EDT

Genetic Analysis of Guam's Cycads Shows Promising Genetic Diversity

Tues, 20 July 2010 17:45 EDT

New Research Explains How Galaxy Centers Light Up

Tues, 20 July 2010 17:45 EDT

Study Shows Real Data and Relevant Video Presentations Make Environmental Issues Come Alive in Classroom

Mon, 3 May 2010 17:45 EDT

New Species of Pancake Batfishes Discovered in the Gulf of Mexico

Fri, 9 July 2010 17:45 EDT

New fossil material re-defines azendohsaurus as a peculiar early reptile

Tues, 18 May 2010 17:45 EDT

Scientists From the U.S., Turkey, Switzerland, and Iran Describe the Nest of an Uncommon Solitary Bee

Mon, 3 May 2010 17:45 EDT

Component Crafted at American Museum of Natural History Will Launch With the James Webb Space Telescope

Tues, 27 Apr 2010 17:45 EDT

New Research Provides Insight into Healthier Consumption of Sushi

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:45 EDT

New Genus and Species of Leech Discovered by Doctors in Amazonian Peru

Thur, 15 Apr 2010 13:45 EDT

New Tool to Stop Disease Outbreaks and Inform National Security

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:45 EDT

A Forest from the Dinosaur Era Discovered in Ethiopian Amber

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:45 EDT

Nebulae Around Stars with Girth Flicker Like Candles

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:45 EDT

New Evidence That Specialized Adaptations are Not Evolutionary Dead Ends

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:45 EDT

A New Book from an American Museum of Natural History Anthropologist Explores Traditional Spirituality in a Rapidly Developing World

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:45 EDT

Competition From Other Bears May Threaten a Polar Bear Population

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:45 EDT

New Simulation Presented at Astronomy Meeting Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun

Fri, 8 Dec 2010 19:45 EDT

American Museum of Natural History Curator Honored for Innovative Research on Fossil Mammals and Directing the new Richard Gilder Graduate School

Tues, 22 Dec 2009 17:45 EDT

New Video Goes Viral

Tues, 22 Dec 2009 17:45 EDT

A New Look at Limbs Changes Understanding of Early Carnivore Locomotion

Tues, 22 Dec 2009 17:45 EDT

Extinct Mammoth and Horse Lingered Thousands of Years Longer than Expected

Tues, 15 Dec 2009 11:05 EDT

New Fossil Theropod Found at New Mexico's Ghost Ranch

Thur, 10 Dec 2009 17:05 EDT

Project 1640 Sees the Unknown Using a Novel Technique Known to Galileo

Thur, 10 Dec 2009 9:05 EDT

Historic Vote Establishes AMNH as First American Museum Approved to Grant PH.D. Degrees

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:05 EDT

Digitizing Thousands of Charles Darwin's Drafts and Notebooks

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:05 EDT

A Genetic Tool Uncovers the Species of Tuna Plated in Sushi Restaurants

Wed, 19 Nov 2009 16:05 EDT

Archaeopteryx Lacked Rapid Bone Growth, The Hallmark of Birds

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:05 EDT

Tipping Point in Planet Formation Found by New Simulations

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:05 EDT

Carnivorous But Smaller T. Rex Relative Shared Environment with Larger Cousins

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:05 EDT

New Comprehensive Analysis Sheds Light on the Origin of Cetaceans

Mon, 29 Sept 2009 13:00 EDT

Demonstrating that Short Genetic Sequences Identify Migratory Marine Species

Mon, 14 Sept 2009 16:00 EDT

A New Tool Proved for Tracking the Global Trade in Wildlife

Fri, 4 Sept 2009 13:00 EDT

Reexamination of Parallel Evolution in Diurnal Neotropical Moths Appears in

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:00 EDT

Herbert Lang and James Chapin Embarked on a Scientific Expedition to the Northeastern Belgian Congo

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00 EDT

New Research Shows Complex Plate Tectonic Movement Along the Motagua Fault

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:00 EDT

U.S. National Park Service Will Preserve DNA Samples in AMNH's Cryo Collection

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:00 EDT

The Great Pollinator Project Recruits Citizen Scientists for the Third Year

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:00 EDT

Urban Advantage Science Education Initiative Highlighted in Commission Report

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:00 EDT

Twelve Students From Across the United States and Canada Include Three Repeat Winners from Texas, Maryland, and New York

Fri, 29 May 2009 18:00 EDT

First Analysis of the Effect of Habitat Changes on Migrating Grazers

Sun, 31 May 2009 10:00 EDT

Comprehensive Analysis Questions Link Between Sociality and Brain Increase in Carnivores

Fri, 29 May 2009 10:00 EDT

The Feet of Homo Floresiensis Were Primitive But Not Pathological

Thu, 7 May 2009 15:00 EDT

Records Test Competing Theories About the Evolution of Local Species

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:00 EDT

Largest 17th Century Bead Repository Found in Coastal Georgia First Evidence of Spanish Beadmaking

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:30 EDT

AMNH Scientists Honored With an Array of Scientific Names

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:00 EDT

Yes, According to a New Fossil Discovery in Montana's Homer Site

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00 EDT

Shark Relative that Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00 EDT

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:06:00 EST

White Eyes Diversity Across a Hemispheric Range Faster than any Other Bird

Tue, 26 Jan 2009 09:49:00 EST

New Evidence from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics Confirms Placozoans Are the Closest Living Surrogate to the Ancestor of All Animals

Tue, 26 Jan 2009 09:47:00 EST

New Species of Climbing Fish from Remote Venezuela Shakes the Catfish Family Tree

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:19:00 EST

Research by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation During 2008, the International Year of the Reef

Tue, 14 Jan 2009 16:27:00 EST

Atlas of Scanning Electron Microscope Images of the Book Lung Published by the American Museum of Natural History

Mon, 13 Jan 2009 09:38:00 EST

Amplifying Entire Mitochondrial Genomes Yields New Insight into Malarial Parasite Evolution

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:23:00 EST

For the First Time, Scientists See that Material Flowing into Known Black Holes Looks Similar, No Matter How Massive the Black Hole

Tues, 16 Dec 2008 11:40:00 EST

New Research from the American Museum of Natural History Highlights Polar Bears' Ability to Adapt to a Changing Arctic

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EST

Genetic Research with Conservation Implications from the AMNH's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00 EST

How DNA Detective Work Explains the Extinction of Christmas Island's Native Rats

Wed, 4 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST

New Research from the American Museum of Natural History Shows that Specialized Diets in Sea Turtles Arose Independently

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EST

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:30:00 EST

Comparison to Competitors Shows that Early Dinosaurs Survived Two Mass Extinctions Without Special Traits

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:00 EST

New Genetic Research on Ancient Bones Shows that The Last Woolly Mammoths Hailed from North America

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:30:00 EST

High-Altitude Small Mammals of the Great Basin are not Completely Isolated

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EST

Scientists Discover That Large-Brained Simians of the New and Old Worlds Independently Arose from Smaller-Brained Ancestors

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:00:00 EST

Herpetologists Discover That A Malagasy Chameleon Spends Most Of Its Short Life In An Egg

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Analysis of Meteorite found in India in 1940 Provides Clues to our Solar Systems Beginning

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST

New Understanding of What Happened Among the Hopi of Orayvi

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EST

Bee Species Outnumber Mammals and Birds as Newly Completed Checklists Highlight

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EST

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EST

Geneticists at the American Museum of Natural History Trace the Evolution of a Disease

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 EST

The Hunt For New Species Of Social Wasps In Belize

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EST

Papers Address Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity and Reorganization of the Tree of Life

Thu, 11 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EST

Astrophysicists Observe A Circumstellar Disk With Tell-Tale Signs of Planet Formation

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST

Discovery of a fossil representing the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates the animals evolved the ability to fly before they could echolocate

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:00:00 EST

Two-Hundred-Pound, Armored Mammal Lived at a Time When Andes Were One-Fourth Their Present Height

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST

Dazzling iridescent fossil of an 80-million-year-old ammonite measuring two feet in diameter was discovered near Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:00:00 EST

Finding by American Museum of Natural History Paleontologists Shows Even Large Dinosaurs May Have Been Feathered

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:00:00 EST

Thu, 6 Sep 2007 01:00:00 EST

Two Forces Once Thought to Hinder, Now Found to Aid Growth of Large Bodies Orbiting Stars

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:00:00 EST

Study Reveals Timing of Physical and Sexual Maturity Among Dinosaur Ancestors to Birds

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:00:00 EST

New Find at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Shows Dinosaurs Coexisted With Their PreDecessors For 15 to 20 Million Years

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:00:00 EST

American Museum of Natural History and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Enlist New Yorkers to Study Native Bees and Plants

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:00:00 EST

New Fossil Discoveries Challenge Role of Climate in Early Penguin Distribution and Evolution

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:00:00 EST

New Fossil Indicates Origin and Rise of Modern Mammals

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:00:00 EST

Anthropologists Elected to Prestigious Science Academies

Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:00:00 EST

Protecting Fish Species Can Help Coral Reefs Recover

Tue, 15 May 2007 01:00:00 EST

Medicinal Leeches are Likely Three Species Instead of One

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:00:00 EST

Glittering Half-Ton Stibnite Saved from Destruction by Chinese Miners

Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:00:00 EST

Scientist Contributes to First "Supertree" of Mammals

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:00:00 EST

Images Reveal Largest Known Remnant of Massive Nova Explosion

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 01:00:00 EST

Small Furry Mammal Was Capable of Gliding Flight

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:00:00 EST

Finding Provides Insight into Diminutive Species on Islands

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:00:00 EST

Paleontologists Overturn Claim That 'Cannibalistic' Dinosaur Ate Its Own

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:00:00 EST

Finding in the Western Amazon Suggests 15-Million-Year-Old Paleoenvironment Similar to Modern Rain Forest

Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:00:00 EST

Biologists Estimate 1,200 Venomous Fish Species

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:00:00 EST

Finding Shows Spiders Affected Evolution of Early Insects

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST

Pre-Columbian Jade Axes Unearthed in Antigua

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST

American Museum of Natural History Scientists Pen Milestone Book

Fri, 26 May 2006 12:00:00 EST

American Museum of Natural History Archaeologist Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:00 EST

Biologists Complete Largest Ever Tree of Life for all Living Amphibians: Landmark Project Involved Extensive Work in Museum's Genomics Labs

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:00:00 EST

Long-Necked, Oddlhy Proportioned Sauropod Reported: A Single Vertebra Measures Nearly Two Feet Long

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:00:00 EST

Oldest-Known Tyrannosaur Reported: 160-Million-Year-Old Predatory Dinosaur Had Large, Fragile crest on its head

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:00:00 EST

Big Fish, Small Fish, Reef Thrive Within Caribbean Marine Park: Marine Reserve in the Bahamas Benefits Fish Predators, Prey, and the Reef

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 02:00:00 EST

Toothless Crocodile Relative, 210 Million Years Old, Walked on Two Feet: Strongly Resembles Bird-Like Dinosaurs

Fri, 6 Jan 2006 02:00:00 EST

Biologist and Colleagues Decode Longest DNA Sequence Ever of Woolly Mammoth: Finding Demonstrates that Sequence of Entire Woolly Mammoth Genome is Within Reach

Wed, 7 Dec 2005 04:00:54 EST

Finding Overturns Earlier Assumption that Islands are Evolutionary Dead-Ends: Suggests Conservationists Bring Greater Focus to Island Flora and Fauna

Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:15:54 EST

Earliest Rabbit Fossil Found: Suggests Modern Mammal Group Emerged as Dinosaurs Faced Extinction

Wed, 8 Feb 2006 02:30:00 EST

Early-Mammals Fed on Young Dinosaurs: Juvenile Psittacosaur Found in Belly of Primitive Mammal

Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:54:54 EST

First Ever Fossil of Sleeping Dinosaur Found in China: Suggests Some Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded Like Birds

Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:54:54 EST

Newly Discovered Primitive Tyrannosaur Found to be Feathered: Underscores Evolutionary Links Among Living Birds and Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:50:54 EST