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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a rare genetic mutation. The blue magnificent tree frog was spotted in the Charnley River-Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary in the Kimberley region, according to a statement from the Australian

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A piece of woolly mammoth skin excavated from the Siberian permafrost has been found to contain fossil chromosomes in a first-of-its-kind discovery, according to a new study. Researchers unearthed the 52,000-year-old remains in 2018 near the village of Belaya Gora in northeastern Siberia, where freezing temperatures helped preserve the

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the remains of what they believe are a 4,000-year-old temple and theater, shining a new light on the origins of complex religions in the region. The team began studying the new archaeological site of La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas, in June. Last year,

By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — A group of 120 scientists, engineers and academics have penned an open letter calling on the Paris Olympics’ organizers to ditch Toyota’s Mirai as the official vehicle of the Games, saying the hydrogen-powered car undermines the event’s green credentials. Cars that run on hydrogen emit zero carbon at the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two lion brothers, including one with an amputated leg, were spotted making a record-breaking night swim through treacherous waters in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Researchers believe that the nearly mile-long (1.6-kilometer) crossing of the crocodile-infested Kazinga Channel is the longest documented swim by lions. And it’s another chapter

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and its crew have been in space for more than a month — much longer than the weeklong stay initially expected. The vehicle has suffered technical issues that have delayed its return indefinitely, and there’s still no return date on the horizon. But the two astronauts piloting

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The oldest known plague victims date back to around 5,000 years ago in Europe. But it’s never been clear whether two cases, one in Latvia and one in Sweden, were isolated and sporadic or evidence of a wider outbreak. A new study, based on ancient DNA recovered from 108

By Louis Mian, CNN London (CNN) — A previously unknown species of plant-eating dinosaur roamed on an island off the south coast of England around 125 million years ago, new research has found. The dinosaur would have been the size of a large American bison and weighed around a ton, according to Jeremy Lockwood, a

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The European Space Agency’s member countries have endured a months-long space access predicament while waiting to add a functioning launch vehicle to their toolbox. But a new rocket, dubbed Ariane 6, just launched on its maiden mission after years of delays and hang-ups in the development process. The flight

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what’s now Morocco preserved some of the most complete specimens ever found of buglike sea creatures called trilobites, revealing anatomical details that scientists had never seen before. Within moments, a fast-moving torrent of hot ash

By Lex Harvey and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Would you like that burger medium rare, well-done, or lab-grown? Researchers in South Korea say they’ve developed a new way to make lab-grown meat taste like the real deal. It may look like a transparent, bubble gum pink-colored disc, but scientists hope it could revolutionize the

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers. The Atacama Desert is known as the Disierto Florida (the “flowering desert”) because every few years

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures, screaming winds and sideways rain made of glass. Now, data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed another intriguing feature of the planet known as HD 189733b: It smells like rotten eggs. Researchers

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The eyed needle — a sewing tool made of bones, antlers or ivory that first appeared around 40,000 years ago in southern Siberia — might be hiding important clues about the beginnings of fashion, a new study has found. Researchers looked at existing archaeological evidence from dozens of sites

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The grasslands, glaciers and snow-tipped peaks of the Tibetan Plateau are breathtaking, but the vast expanse in Central Asia is also one of Earth’s harshest environments. When I traveled to the plateau three decades ago, my head pounded, and I got sluggish from altitude sickness. Archaeologists long believed the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth, they discovered a surprise: One of the asteroids has a little moon. Astronomers regularly track the trajectories of asteroids to ensure that none of them are on a potential collision course

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Set atop a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, Agrigento is a heritage tourist’s paradise. Beneath the archaeological structures and relics of its Valley of the Temples lies an ancient maze-like aqueduct system that still captures water today. But the aqueduct, and others built in modern times, are

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has found. Now, scientists who made the surprising discovery of its fossils in Namibia and Brazil

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery. This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves — its