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Pompeii-Style Volcanic Ash Preserved ‘Nursery’ of Earliest Animals
A volcanic eruption around 579 million years ago buried a ‘nursery’ of the earliest-known animals under a Pompeii-like deluge...
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New Studies Refute Report of Arsenic-Loving Bacteria
It was a provocative finding: strange bacteria in a California lake that thrived on something completely unexpected — arsenic....
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All Dinosaurs May Have Had Feathers
Early dinosaurs probably looked a lot more like Big Bird than scientists once suspected. A newly discovered, nearly complete...
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Date of Earliest Animal Life Reset By 30 Million Years
University of Alberta researchers have uncovered physical proof that animals existed 585 million years ago, 30 million years earlier...
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Cassini Finds Likely Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its...
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Rare ‘Green Rust’ Offers Glimpse of Ancient Seas
A rare and highly reactive iron mineral called green rust appears to have played an important role in ancient...
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Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded After All?
The long-standing belief that dinosaurs were cold-blooded may have been premature, if new research into herbivorous mammals is anything...
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Would Finding ET Shatter Religious Beliefs?
The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity’s place in the universe, but it...
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Water in Mars’ Mantle Raises Possibility it Sustained Life
The amount of water in places of the Martian mantle is vastly larger than previous estimates and is similar...
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Probe Reveals Ice Content of Moon’s Shackleton Crater
Up to 22 percent of the surfaces of Shackleton Crater, located near the moon’s south pole, may be water...