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  • Can a species ‘de-evolve’? Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may provide compelling evidence
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    Can a species ‘de-evolve’? Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may provide compelling evidence
  • Sea ice covers much of the Weddell Sea.
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    Antarctic expedition to find Endurance shipwreck made surprising seafloor discovery
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    Six species of North American bats glow under UV light, adding to growing list of fluorescent mammals
  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
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    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
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    New research upends theory that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals to extinction
  • Portrait of Napoleon I (1769-1821) with the Iron Crown and the insigna of the Legion of Honour. Painting by Charles Auguste Steuben (1788-1856), 1812. Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    DNA from Napoleon’s ill-fated 1812 army reveals what likely led to the soldiers’ demise
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    ‘London Underground mosquito’ is actually much older than previously thought
  • A stained section of a tooth organoid generated and grown in the lab at King’s College London.
    Dr. Xuechen Zhang
    Scientists are racing to grow human teeth in the lab
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  • The scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, nicknamed “Ed Jr.” The juvenile duckbill, estimated to be about two years old at the time it died, is the only juvenile dinosaur mummy ever discovered
    Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab
    66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask
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    Natalia Jagielska
    Rare look at the last days of the dinosaurs shows they were thriving, scientists say

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  • O’Neill Cylinder interior provides a 20-mile vista. Children born here would think it totally normal to have “upside down” land areas overhead.
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    Two billionaires have very different — and equally wild — visions of a future in space. Is either possible?
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    A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
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  • This is an artist's illustration of a typical asteroid, and not intended to depict 2025 PN7.
    JPL-Caltech/NASA
    Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth
  • Elon Musk calls acting NASA chief ‘Sean Dummy’ as SpaceX moon contract hangs in the balance
  • Why these companies want to send data centers into space
  • ‘We’re not going to wait for one company’: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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    Sergio Couto
    Vulture nests in Spain reveal a centuries-old sandal and other stunning cultural artifacts
  • Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’
  • Archaeologists have uncovered a sunken ancient Egyptian port. Is it connected to Cleopatra?
  • Elusive shipwreck found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking

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    What is mirror life? Scientists are sounding the alarm
  • The ‘Chicago rat hole’ sparked internet fervor in 2024. Now, scientists have found the culprit
  • Why birds sang after a total solar eclipse, according to new research
  • Sparks between microscopic bubbles could explain the ghostly, glowing will-o’-the-wisps, study finds

Paleontology

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    Rudolf Hima
    Researchers spot rare evidence of how two baby pterosaurs died 150 million years ago
  • Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
  • Researchers unearthed skeleton of extinct ‘hypercarnivore’ that had a taste for dinosaurs
  • New dinosaur species with striking sail-like back discovered
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