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New Tanana Arctic Butterfly A Hybrid Of Two Ancient Species. The first new butterfly species discovered in the Alaskan wilderness in nearly three decades may be a rare hybrid between two related species, each of which have adapted to the harsh conditions of the Arctic environment, new research from a University of Florida lepidopterist (butterfly and moth scientist) claims.

Vancouverites will be treated to a “penumbral” lunar eclipse Wednesday morning as the Earth casts its shadow over the moon — expected to cover three-quarters of the shining orb. Between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. on March 23, the moon will be eclipsed by the Earth, causing a visible shadow.

UFO hunters believe they’ve spotted an “alien megastructure” in a NASA image, which they claim proves the sun is hollow. The picture, captured by Nasa’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite, has sent conspiracy theorists, who believe the Sun is hosting an “alien world,” into a frenzy. The “anomaly” was highlighted by alien enthusiast and YouTuber, TheWatcher252, who cited a …

Through the years of searching for fossils of the ever-popular Tyrannosaurus rex, locating a pregnant one has been understandably difficult. But researchers now believe they’ve located one, determining this particular T. rex that roamed Montana was female. Scientists from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have confirmed the presence of medullary bone – a …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was one of many Canadians who joined millions around the world Saturday night in turning off their lights for Earth Hour. Government buildings and monuments across the country also went dim from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time, including Toronto’s CN tower, the cross on Montreal’s Mount Royal and Edmonton’s High Level bridge.

About a year ago when news of the bright spots on Ceres broke, scientists were puzzled by the mysterious marks. The situation has just become even more perplexing, as a recently published study reveals that observations show the glowing features change intensity over time. “The result was a surprise,” Antonino Lanza, a co-author on the new research, said in a …

King Tut’s burial tomb has two hidden chambers, Egypt’s antiquities minister announced today. Minister Mamdouh El Damati said a team of Japanese experts analyzed scans of the walls, and are 90% sure that two chambers containing organic and metal material lie behind Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.

A seemingly innocent-looking femur belonging to a long-dead Tyrannosaurus rex revealed that the dinosaur was pregnant at the time of its death – a rare confirmation of the creature’s sex that could also explain when and how modern birds evolved to lay eggs. The discovery, which is detailed in Tuesday’s edition of the journal Scientific Reports, “allows us to determine …

The enigma of the Tully Monster is finally out in the open. It seems to have been amicably solved. Ever since the year 1958, when Frank Tully stumbled upon a bizarre fossil, paleontologists have been left in a confused state as to what the creature really is. A team of scientists at Yale University led by graduate student Victoria McCoy …

A new species of dinosaurs described as a ‘savage predator’ has been discovered in a remote part of Canada, by a University of New England paleontologist. Dr Phil Bell from the School of Environmental and Rural Science says the new species, called Boreonykus, was a relative of Velociraptor, made famous in the Jurassic Park films. Boreonykus had killer claws but …

As a 10-year-old boy in the 1960s, Andrew Wiles happened across a book in his local library called The Last Problem, which detailed a ~330-year-old struggle to solve the most longstanding unsolved problem in the history of mathematics: Fermat’s Last Theorem. The seemingly simple equation, which said for any three whole numbers a, b and c, the equation an + …