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Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks

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Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pu...
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In brain evolution, size matters, most of the time

Posted by Unknown | 6:36 AM
Which came first, overall bigger brains or larger brain regions that control specialized behaviors? Neuroscientists have debated this...
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Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of dinosaurs

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Leading hospital "superbugs," known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years -- about t...
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Anemonefish dads do almost anything to support their offspring

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Like the father in "Finding Nemo," anemonefish dads will do almost anything to support their offspring. Their parenting ins...
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Fierce mating battle between wild cuttlefish

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It sounds like Shakespearean drama: A male fights to protect his mate after a rival steals her away, using all his cunning and streng...
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New species of dinosaur increases the already unexpected diversity of 'whiplash dinosaurs'

Posted by Unknown | 7:28 AM
Researchers from Italy and Portugal describe yet another new sauropod species from 150 million years ago, from Wyoming, USA. The new ...
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Bonobos may be better representation of last common ancestor with humans than chimps

Posted by Unknown | 6:25 AM
A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely ...
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Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past

Posted by Unknown | 5:32 AM
Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns...
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Is climate change responsible for record-setting extreme weather events?

Posted by Unknown | 6:46 AM
After an unusually intense heat wave, downpour or drought, Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group inevitably receive phone calls and...
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Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear

Posted by Unknown | 9:05 PM
The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last spring, its retr...
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Precision chronology sheds new light on the origins of Mongolia's nomadic horse culture

Posted by Unknown | 9:04 PM
According to new research, nomadic horse culture -- famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes -- can trace its roots ...
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Predicting the movement, impacts of microplastic pollution

Posted by Unknown | 9:03 PM
Marine circulation and weather conditions greatly affect microplastic aggregation and movement. Microplastics, which are particles meas...
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Hunting accounts for 83 and 58 percent declines in tropical mammal and bird populations

Posted by Unknown | 11:22 AM
Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced decl...
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Three quarters of deep-sea animals make their own light

Posted by Unknown | 7:57 PM
Ever since explorer William Beebe descended into the depths in a metal sphere in the 1930s, marine biologists have been astounded by th...
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Melting sea ice may lead to more life in the sea

Posted by Unknown | 9:58 PM
When spring arrives in the Arctic, both snow and sea ice melt, forming melt ponds on the surface of the sea ice. Every year, as global ...
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