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The fact that Mars' south pole holds many underground lakes suggests that they might be the last remnants of the planet's ancient oceans.

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Briny Underground Lakes May Be All That Remain of Martian Ocean

New data confirm the 2018 discovery of a lake under Mars’ south pole and point to three smaller water features around it

A deadly Australian funnel-web spider bares its fangs.

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Deadly Spiders Evolved Venom to Safely Search for Love

Male funnel-web spiders evolved deadly venom to protect themselves from vertebrate predators when they leave the safety of their burrows to find a mate

The emerald ash borer first appeared in Michigan in 2002.

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Invasive Pest Threatens Future of North American Ash Trees

A new study shows that ash tree populations are not growing fast enough to replace the trees killed by ash borer larvae

Researchers prepared meals made out of maize, wheat and venison every week for a year.

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Millennia-Old Cookware May Be the Key to Recreating Ancient Cuisine

A year-long experiment’s ingredients, tools and cleaning techniques imitated early culinary practices as closely as possible

Some animals eat the leaves, but the venomous spines are certainly enough to discourage humans from getting too close.

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How Venomous Australian Stinging Trees Cause So Much Pain

The trees may look fuzzy, but they’re covered in tiny needles that can cause months of pain

Indian fishermen row their boat on the Bay of Bengal.

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Undersea Earthquakes May Help Us Take the Ocean’s Temperature

The technique could allow for more accurate and comprehensive monitoring of the world’s warming oceans and track climate change

The postage-stamp sized sample of amber contained 39 half-millimeter-long crustaceans called ostracods, including 31 of a new species.

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Scientists Discover Oldest Sperm Yet Preserved in Amber

The longest sperm in the sample is one-third the body length of the creature that produced it

Los Machos rock shelter and schematic rock art panel

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Fingerprint Analysis Reveals New Insights on Prehistoric Rock Art’s Creators

Study suggests an adult man and a juvenile girl crafted the red ocher paintings seen at Spain’s Los Machos rock shelter

A new study suggests the Nebra Sky Disc is 1,000 years younger than previously assumed.

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Is This Ancient Map of the Cosmos Younger Than Previously Thought?

A controversial new analysis of the Nebra Sky Disc suggests the artifact dates to the Iron Age, not the Bronze Age

Drone images show the location of a council circle found on an ancestral Wichita site in Kansas.

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Drone Imaging Reveals Pre-Hispanic ‘Great Settlement’ Beneath Kansas Ranch

The 164-foot-wide earthwork is the sixth ancestral Wichita “council circle” discovered in the region

Researchers identified a "trench" previously dated to modern times as a 3,700-year-old fissure.

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Did an Earthquake Topple This Ancient Canaanite Palace?

Excavations at Tel Kabri in Israel revealed physical evidence of a natural disaster

A research team surveyed the seafloor near Thwaites Glacier on the RV Nathaniel B Palmer in early 2019.

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Mapping Technology Reveals Channels of Warm Water Under Florida-Sized Glacier

The new research will inform computer models of how quickly the glacier is melting

Bronze-tailed Comet (Polyonymus caroli) perched on a cactus in Peru.

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Hummingbirds in the Andes Go to Chilly Extremes for a Good Night’s Sleep

The longer a bird spent in a state of torpor, the less body mass it lost overnight

Parasitic dodders use outgrowths called haustoria to leech water and nutrients from their host plants.

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Parasitic Plant Waits for Host’s Signal Before Flowering

Dodders grow into tangled masses of leafless tendrils also called wizard’s net and strangleweed

Green lasers pointed at a plastic mannequin head wearing a face shield show how the droplets from a cough or sneeze escape around the sides.

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Face Shields and Valved Masks Don’t Fully Stop the Spread of Aerosols

A new visualization shows how droplets from a cough or sneeze escape around the sides of a plastic face shield

Polish explorers check a footage from a remote-operated vehicle deep in the Czech Republic's deepest cave.

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World’s Deepest Freshwater Cave Is Twice as Deep as Previously Thought

New research shows the Hranice Abyss in the Czech Republic is 3,280 feet deep

A scale model of Stonehenge used to test the ancient monument's acoustics

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Scientists Map Stonehenge’s Soundscape

Study of small-scale model sheds light on how conversation, music moved through the massive monument

A miniature version of the Hampton Court hedge maze is one of the most complicated mazes the amoebas solved.

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A Mini Version of Britain’s Royal Hedge Maze Is No Match for Amoebas

The study demonstrates how cells navigate the human body to provide immunity or carry messages

This embryonic sauropod perished after about four-fifths of its development in an egg.

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Why This ‘Unicorn Baby Dinosaur’ Is the ‘Cutest,’ ‘Weirdest’ Ever

The tiny sauropod had a horn on its snout and forward-facing eyes, unlike its adult counterparts

The 63 statues selected depict their subjects in eight different situations, including carrying a baby, playing music, preparing for combat and undergoing torture.

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What Ancient Sculptures Reveal About Universal Facial Expressions

New research suggests displays of emotion may transcend time and culture

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