The skeletons of an allosaurus and a diplodocus are up for auction in Paris this week, marketed as hip interior design objects—for those with big enough living rooms.
Archaeology
Apr 10, 2018
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Down deep off the south slope of São Jorge Island in the Azores, west of Portugal in the North Atlantic Ocean, a fearsome-looking fish and her parasitically attached mate drift almost helplessly, salvaging precious energy ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2018
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Google is paying tribute Friday to "the father of modern philanthropy."
Internet
Mar 20, 2018
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Anthropologists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and an international team of collaborators have discovered that early humans in East Africa had—by about 320,000 years ago—begun trading with distant ...
Archaeology
Mar 15, 2018
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A team of American Museum of Natural History researchers has created a computational model capable of predicting whether or not organisms have the ability to "eat" other cells through a process known as phagocytosis. The ...
Evolution
Feb 20, 2018
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The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it is quick, but also because it can hold an incredibly still gaze while pursuing prey. For the first time, researchers have investigated ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2018
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Imagine your hometown or city's entire population had to live on just one tenth of the land it used to—essentials like food and shelter would quickly go scarce, and it'd be just about impossible for the populace to sustain ...
Ecology
Feb 1, 2018
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An unusual spider lurks in Madagascar's rainforests.
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2018
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Scientists have discovered the first evidence that brittle stars living in vibrant coral reefs use thousands of light sensors to navigate their way through their complex environments.
Astronomy
Jan 24, 2018
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Visiting a colleague in Germany in 2012, Boston College Research Professor Paul K. Strother was examining soil samples for pollen, spores, pieces of plants and insect legs - organic debris that might otherwise have been considered ...
Evolution
Jan 10, 2018
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