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Now That’s a Fossil: Turtles Died During Sex 47 Million Years Ago
German palaeontologists have dug up the remains of nine turtle pairs that died while mating some 47 million years...
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You Owe Your Life to Rock
Thank goodness for granite. If not for the formation and subsequent erosion of large quantities of metal-rich granite on...
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Still Adapting: Genetic Diversity of ‘Living Fossil’ Coelacanths
The morphology of coelacanths has not fundamentally changed since the Devonian age, that is, for about 400 million years....
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Shark-Headed Human Ancestor Swam With Fishes
Peer far enough back in the human family lineage, and you’ll find a fishy ancestor that looked surprisingly like...
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CERN Scientists Excruciatingly Close to Discovering Higgs Boson
Physicists investigating the make-up of the universe are closing in on the Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to...
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Maybe a Cosmic Impact Wiped Out Mammoths After All
A study of rocks in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Syria provides powerful support for the theory that a major...
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Unique Microbes Found in Extreme Environment
Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on...
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Plants May Be Able to ‘Hear’ Others
They can “smell” chemicals and respond to light, but can plants hear sounds? It seems chilli seeds can sense...
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Giant Insects Shrunk as Birds Entered Prehistoric Skies
Millions of years ago, oversized insects like griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today’s hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above)...
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Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
Nearly 20,000 species of animals and plants around the globe are considered high risks for extinction in the wild....