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Fossils From Ancient Hot Springs Suggest Life May Have Evolved on Land
These 3.5-billion-year-old rocks could vindicate Darwin’s claim that life evolved in “some warm little pond,” and not in the ocean
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Appalled by the Illegal Trade in Elephant Ivory, a Biologist Decided to Make His Own
Faking the stuff of elephant tusks could benefit wildlife conservation and engineering—yet many technical hurdles remain
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Historical Pressed Flowers Accidentally Destroyed in Australia
The flowers are “literally irreplaceable”
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Tomatoes Have Legally Been Vegetables Since 1893
Okay, so it’s technically a fruit. But we don’t eat it like one
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Will This Artificial Womb One Day Improve the Care of Preemies?
A new treatment, tested on lambs, involves letting fetuses mature in fluid-filled sacs
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Watch Two Cuttlefish Fiercely Battle Over a Mate
This is the first time researchers caught the creatures locked in a vicious fight in the wild
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The Secret Behind Bioluminescent Mushrooms’ Magic Glow
Scientists use chemistry to account for an astonishing phenomenon
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A Grand Unified Theory of Pooping
Why you and an elephant spend the same amount of time on the john
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Threatened Species? Science to the (Genetic) Rescue!
This still-controversial conservation technique will never be a species’ panacea. But it might provide a crucial stop-gap
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In the Early 20th Century, the Department of Tropical Research Was Full of Glamorous Adventure
A new exhibition features 60 works by artists the New York Zoological Society department hired to help communicate field biology
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How Low Can Life Go? New Study Suggests Six Miles Down
Evidence of life from below a mud volcano hints at life beneath the crust
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Dingo Wins Competition for World’s Most Interesting Genome
The desert dingo beat out an explosive beetle, a pit viper and pink pigeon to win a grant to have its genome sequenced
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California’s Lush Super Bloom Is Even More Stunning From Space
Satellite images captured an explosion of flowers stretching across California’s desert hills
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This Ant Species Rescues Wounded Comrades on the Battlefield
Though it may be counterintuitive, a new study suggests saving the injured benefits the colony more than leaving them for dead
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Scientists Think Comb Jellies May Have Come Before All Other Animals
Sorry, sponges—there’s a new oldest ancestor in town
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Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
Califorctenus cacachilensis is the width of a softball and represents a new genus of arachnids
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An Artificial Lung That Fits In a Backpack
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are developing a device that works like the sophisticated organ
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Slo-Mo Footage Shows How Scorpions Strike
Using high speed cameras, researchers uncovered the defensive patterns used by scorpions, including the super-fast death stalker
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Feuding Iguanas and Giant Rodents Rule This Cuban Island
In the Jardines de la Reina, an archipelago in the southern part of Cuba, two species have managed to co-exist in not-quite-harmony
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The Campaign Is On to Save the Natural History Collections of a Louisiana University
The school is displacing millions of specimens in favor of a new track
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