Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single maternal lineage that diverged after dogs entered North ...

A 190,000- to 10,000-year-old fossilized mandible found in the Penghu Channel, Taiwan, in the 2000s belonged to a male Denisovan, according to an analysis of ancient proteins. The finding provides ...

NGC 4945 resides over 12 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. Otherwise known as Caldwell 83, this galaxy was discovered by the Sottish astronomer James Dunlop in ...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France has observed 128 additional moons orbiting the gas giant Saturn, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 274. The ...