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The Top Seven Human Evolution Discoveries From Tanzania

Fossil finds from Tanzania in the mid-20th century kicked off East African hominid hunting

A dark Manhattan after Superstorm Sandy

Can We Ever Stop Worrying About Blackouts?

Only if utility companies are able to make their power grids smart enough to spot outages and “heal” themselves

Only hindlimb elements of Alnashetri are known so far, but, based on the dinosaur’s relationships, the tiny theropod probably looked something like this Alvarezsaurus.

Cretaceous Legs Give Away New Dinosaur

Slender limb bones found in Argentina give away a new species of tiny dinosaur

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Trash as Treasure: Crocheting Plastic Coral Reefs

With yarn made from discarded plastic bags, Australian artist Helle Jorgensen stitches delicate sculptures of corals

An artist’s rendering of CFBDSIR2149, as viewed through an infrared filter.

A Wandering “Homeless” Planet is Spotted in Deep Space

Astronomers have spotted an object roughly 100 light-years away that appears to be a planet not associated with any star

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Are We Headed for Another Dust Bowl?

The devastating drought of the 1930s forever changed American agriculture. Could those conditions return?

A male Eastern wild turkey

14 Fun Facts About Turkeys

#8: A turkey’s gender can be determined from its droppings

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Video: This 750-Leg Millipede is the Leggiest Creature in the World

Illacme plenipes, an extremely rare species endemic to just a few wooded areas in Northern California, is fully described for the first time

A reconstruction of an Einiosaurus skull in a ceratopsid gallery at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

Lessons from Einiosaurus

New dinosaurs are always cause for excitement, but the real joy of paleontology is investigating dinosaur lives

Research shows that the FDA’s proposed graphic warning labels would be more effective than the current text-only ones.

Images on Cigarette Packs Are Scarier to Smokers Than Text Warnings

A new study shows that nothing scares a smoker away from taking another puff more than a picture of how a body will look like after a lifetime of doing so

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Peering Inside Dinosaur Skin

Dinosaur skin impressions aren’t as rare as you might think, but how they form is a mystery

Going Knots, by Huguette Roe

A Photographer Turns Her Eye to the Recycling Process

Huguette Roe makes compressed cans, pipes and paper look like abstract art

The 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus bahrelghazali from Chad probably ate grass, just like the modern baboons seen here do.

Early Hominids Had a Taste for Grass

Unlike earlier hominids, the 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus bahrelghazali ate grassland foods

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Tracking Dinosaurs With Ray Stanford

Amateur paleontologist Ray Stanford has a great talent for tracking Maryland’s Cretaceous dinosaurs

In a new study, the larger fonts and backlights available on iPads and other readers helped improve reading speeds.

In Study, iPads and Readers Help Those With Vision Loss Read Faster

Researchers say that the larger fonts and backlights available on tablets help improve reading speeds

The reconstructed skull of Eotriceratops. The actual specimen is not complete, but, based on the recovered elements and the dinosaur’s relationships, we know the dinosaur would have looked similar to Triceratops.

E is for Eotriceratops

The recently discovered Eotriceratops might yield important clues about how the famous Triceratops evolved

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The Sharing of the Screens

Get ready for the day when your big screen and your small screens work together to connect you with shows and products.

Delphinium pergrinum

Amazing Close-Ups of Seeds

A scientist-artist duo creates stunning images, taken through a scanning electron microscope, of seeds in the Millennium Seed Bank

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Paleontologists Welcome Xenoceratops to the Ceratopsian Family Tree

Canadian researchers found the horned dinosaur hiding in storage

Crocodylians are the last living representatives of the crocodylomorpha, an even bigger group that originated over 205 million years ago.

The Top 10 Greatest Survivors of Evolution

Travel back millions of years in your time machine and you’d find some of these species thriving and looking much as they do today

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