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Leakey: Evolution Debate Will Soon Be History
Noted paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey says scientific discoveries may soon make the debate over evolution a part of history. The...
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Earth Took 10 Million Years to Recover From Mass Extinction
The Earth’s greatest mass extinction, 250 million years ago, was so severe that it took 10 million years for...
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Organic Molecules Do Have Martian Origins
Organic molecules — compounds that on Earth can be linked with life — encased within Martian meteorites now reveal...
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First Terrestrial Animals Shuffled Onto Land
The transition from swimming to walking involved some awkward first steps, according to a new study that recreated how...
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Jurassic Squid Ink Same as Modern Squid Ink
Ink from 160-million-year-old giant squid is essentially identical to today’s squid ink. The discovery suggests that the ink and...
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Slow-Motion Microbes Still Living Off Dinosaur-Era “Lunch Box”
Unidentified life-forms "breach the limits of life as we know it."
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Amber Preserves Earliest Pollination Clue
Amber from 100-million-year-old deposits in Northern Spain has preserved and revealed the first ever record of insect pollination, scientists...
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“Map of Life” Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small
Ever wonder exactly where grizzly bears live on this continent? Or where you might find Myotis lucifungus, the fuzzy,...
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Tidal Heating Shrinks the Goldilocks Zone
A previously little-considered heating effect could shrink estimates of the habitable zone of the Milky Way’s most numerous class...
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Safety in Numbers Doesn’t Always Apply to Extinction Risk
A basic tenet underpinning scientists’ understanding of extinction is that more abundant species persist longer than their less abundant...