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Introducing Endangered Species to Our Cities

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Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered

The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree

Introducing Endangered Species to Our Cities — Introducing Endangered Species to Our Cities

Some ecologists believe our best chance to preserve biodiversity is to introduce non-native species to cities—but others warn of unintended consequences

Ancient Unwashed Dishes Reveal Food of a Lost City — Ancient Unwashed Dishes Reveal Food of a Lost City

Material pulled from ceramic sherds reveals the favored foodstuffs in the 8,000-year-old city of Çatalhöyük in Turkey

New Tyrant Dinosaur Stalked Ancient New Mexico — New Tyrant Dinosaur Stalked Ancient New Mexico

The Dynamoterror, a relative of Tyrannosaurs rex, lived millions of years before other known species of tyrannosaur

New Discovery Stirs Up Signs of Elusive Planet 9 — New Discovery Stirs Up Signs of Elusive Planet 9

A new minor planet called "the Goblin" is the second most distant known object in the solar system

TESS Space Telescope Will Find Thousands of Worlds — TESS Space Telescope Will Find Thousands of Worlds

NASA's new space telescope has already discovered two planets, but the hunt for a world like Earth is just getting started

Blind Cavefish Shed Light on Mammalian Evolution — Blind Cavefish Shed Light on Mammalian Evolution

Like mammals, these cave-dwelling creatures have discarded a solar-powered system that repairs UV-damaged DNA

Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered — Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered

The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree

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