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The rapidly moving Mount Baldy dune has consumed everything in its sandy wake, including fungus-ridden black oak trees that are thought to be the source of the mysterious tunnels.

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New Insights Behind the Sand Dunes That Swallowed a Boy

Scientists have confirmed that fungus-ridden trees are to blame

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This Man Got Cancer from a Tapeworm

A very strange case challenges some assumptions about parasites

An illustration of Ornithomimus based on the findings of preserved tail feathers and soft tissue

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New Fossils Show Ostrich-like Dinosaurs Sported a Coat of Plumage

Bits of ancient feathers and skin still clung to the exquisitely preserved fossils

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Weak Skeletons May Have Spelled the End for Mammoths

New results suggest that weak bones made the beasts more susceptible to human hunters

Iceberg, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

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What is Happening to Antarctica’s Ice Sheets

While parts of Antarctica get icier, others are on the verge of collapse

Singing sand dunes in the Gobi Desert

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Why the Sands of Many Dunes Sing, Boom, and Even Burp

Contrary to Marco Polo’s tales, it’s not because they’re full of mysterious spirits

Pliobates cataloniae, a newly discovered ancient ape

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Tiny Ancient Skeleton Redefines the Split Between Monkeys and Apes

The last common ancestor of all apes may have been smaller than previously thought

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African Vultures Could Go Extinct Within the Next Century

Poachers, poison and collisions with wind turbines are killing these important scavengers

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People Who Believe in Ghosts Are More Fearful Overall

New research finds a link between paranormal beliefs and fears of things like natural disasters

Five Things We’ve Learned About Fear Since Last Halloween

Including why screams get our brain’s attention and why a drop of “love hormone” in our nose could make us less fearful

Archeologists working at the Upward Sun River site in Alaska, where they found the 11,500-year-old remains of two infants

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Ice Age Babies Buried in Alaska Reveals Early Genetic Diversity in North America

The infants’ DNA shows that humans may have stayed near the Bering Strait for thousands of years before moving farther south

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Genetically Edited Hercules Dogs Can Pack on Extra Muscles

Scientists use a natural mutation that produces extra muscle to tweak dogs genes

Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) on 12 February 2015

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Comet Lovejoy is One Boozy Space Rock

The greenish comet that lit up the sky last January releases as much alcohol as 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak

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Future Cops May Track Down Criminals By Making Fingerprints Glow

One scientist’s revenge could be the ultimate crime-fighting tool

Planets forming around a young star (artist’s vision)

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92 Percent of Possible Earth Twins Have Yet to Be Born

Our young universe promises trillions of more planets to come

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27 Percent of U.S. Adults Didn’t Read a Single Book Last Year

This new survey on reading habits isn’t all doom and gloom, though

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The Mysterious Case of the Adirondacks Sugar Maple

The trees are on the decline, but why?

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Lead Poisoning Rampant for Wealthy Medieval Europeans

It wasn’t just the Romans that accidentally poisoned themselves

Bleached coral pokes through the water's surface off the coast of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

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Sunscreen May Be Destroying Coral Reefs

Just a tiny amount of a common chemical in sunscreen can bleach and break delicate coral

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Man’s Best Friend May Hail From Central Asia

Genetic analysis of over 5,000 dogs suggests that they were originally domesticated in Mongolia and Nepal

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