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Skulls Engineered for Hard Knocks
The braincase of a skull may well be, as advertised, a strongly built and cleverly engineered structure, but listening...
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Life Abhors Arsenic, Even In Extremis
Another study casts doubt on the famous arsenic-life findings, showing the bacterium actually grabs phosphorus wherever it can be...
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Remains of Fanged, Tiny Veggie Dinosaur Found
A “punk-sized” dinosaur with porcupine-like bristles featured some flashy stabbing self-sharpening fangs – although it likely only had a...
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Oceanic Planktons May Help Predict Future
Planktons constitute 98% of the ocean world and a group of researchers, after studying these in detail, believes that...
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Earth Life May Have Come From Fragments of Other Planets
Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life...
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Ocean Bacteria Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago
Researchers at the University of Washington have determined that “some” microbial life migrated from the Earth’s oceans to land...
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The Surprising Evolutionary History of Lizards and Snakes
A new study, published online in Biology Letters, has utilized a massive molecular dataset to reconstruct the evolutionary history...
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Icy Particles of Space May Have Been Ingredients for Life on Earth
In an effort to better understand how life started on Earth, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are cooking...
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Study of Giant Viruses Shakes Up Tree of Life
A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular...
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Weird Exoplanets Could Harbor Weird Life
New research indicates that life might be able to survive on some of the odder exoplanets discovered so far...