Science

Although small, the three-backed gull has a large enough mouth to feed the young of its predators. Kim Taylor / Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiAugust 27, 2020, 11:00 p.m. No bigger than a minnow, the three-spine stickleback may seem like a tough player in the underwater world. But along the …

Issued on: 27/08/2020 – 20:06Change: 27/08/2020 – 20:05 Washington (AFP) Water occupies 70 percent of the earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a long scientific debate. The puzzle was a step closer to the resolution on Thursday after …

Earth’s oceans may have formed directly from the ‘stellar matter’ that accumulated in the early solar system, according to new research – challenging the idea that most of Earth’s water here was supplied by meteorites and comets. Scientists who studied rare meteorites thought to have formed in the hot inner …

A scientist literally stumbled upon a 166 million year old dinosaur fossil while walking on the beach in Scotland. © Tim Ireland A member of staff at the museum presents a photograph of the most complete Stegosaurus fossil ever discovered at the Natural History Museum in London, England, on Wednesday, …

Earth may not need it asteroid and comet strike to fill their oceans, reports a new study. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that our planet was born dry because its building blocks were relatively close to the hot, scorching sun. Earth therefore received the vast majority of their water later, …