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500-year-old lion drawing in Puerto Rican cave may have been made by an enslaved African
There were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one?
There were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one?
New research describes how a kilonova explosion triggered by colliding neutron stars could eradicate life on Earth for thousands of years. Thankfully, the odds are incredibly low.
The walled city likely served as a political and cultural hub in Bronze Age China.
Scientists have described two lamprey fossils with "extensively toothed" mouths from the Jurassic period, shining a light on how this group has evolved into its modern forms since the Devonian.
NASA has released a new image of an eerie, cranium-shaped caldera in the Sahara Desert, which looks like it is staring right at the orbiting camera.
A striking new image shows bright orange auroras dancing in the night sky above Canada. But auroras should never be this color, so what's going on?
A new tool may be able to predict the effectiveness of herbs used in traditional Chinese medicines — but what do experts think of its assessments?
Scientists have scanned the mummified remains of a supposed "mermaid" from Japan. The initial results suggest it is a horrifying mix of fish, monkey and lizard parts.
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There are now RSV vaccines approved for older adults and for pregnant people, and antibody shots (not vaccines) available for babies. What's the difference?
A new antibody shot called Beyfortus was recently approved to protect babies from RSV, but it's in short supply this season.
Researchers recorded hundreds of facial expressions in cats, finding they're not quite as aloof as previously thought.
Archaeologists have discovered 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives in Indonesia.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has released a "revised prediction" for the current solar cycle, which states that the upcoming solar maximum will arrive sooner and be more explosive than they initially forecast — as Live Science previously reported.
New research suggests we have just six years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and two decades to keep temperatures below the 2 C threshold in the Paris Agreement.
Scientists have pieced together the remnants of a continent that broke off from western Australia 155 million years ago and seemingly vanished as it drifted northward toward Southeast Asia.
An 8-year-old girl discovered the bones of a woolly mammoth and a prehistoric bison after a landslide along the banks of a river in western Russia.
The Chicxulub impact threw sulfur gas, soot and dust into the air. New research finds that the dust may have been the most devastating.
Paleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur with "angry eyebrows" that lived 80 million years ago.