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Bone tumor in 120,000-year-old Neandertal discovered

The first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now present-day Croatia. The bone fragment,...

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Irish chronicles reveal links between cold weather and volcanic eruptions

Medieval chronicles have given researchers a glimpse into the past to assess how historical volcanic eruptions affected the weather in Ireland up to 1500 years ago. Researchers have successfully linked...

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Living fossils? Actually, sturgeon fish are evolutionary speedsters

Efforts to restore sturgeon in the Great Lakes region have received a lot of attention in recent years, and many of the news stories note that the prehistoric-looking fish are "living fossils"...

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Three-billion-year-old microfossils include plankton

Spindle-shaped inclusions in three-billion-year-old rocks are microfossils of plankton that probably inhabited the oceans around the globe during that time, according to scientists. ...Read More →

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Ötzi the Iceman’s dark secrets: Protein investigation supports brain injury...

After decoding the Iceman's genetic make-up, a research team has now made another major breakthrough in mummy research: Using just a pinhead-sized sample of brain tissue from the world-famous glacier...

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New theory proposes solution to long-running debate as to how stable the...

Researchers have proposed an answer to the long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is. Earth, with its core-driven magnetic field, oceans of liquid water, dynamic climate and abundant...

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Mysterious monument found beneath the Sea of Galilee

Scientists have discovered a mysterious monument beneath the waves of the Sea of Galilee. The site resembles early burial sites in Europe and was likely built in the early Bronze Age. ...Read More →

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From hot springs to HIV, same protein complexes are hijacked to promote viruses

Biologists have discovered a striking connection between viruses such as HIV and Ebola and viruses that infect organisms called archaea that grow in volcanic hot springs. Despite the huge difference in...

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Modern humans did not settle in Asia before eruption of Sumatra volcano...

When did modern humans settle in Asia and what route did they take from humankind's African homeland? New research refutes a recent theory that there is archaeological evidence for the presence of...

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X-rays reveal new picture of ‘dinobird’ plumage patterns

The first complete chemical analysis of feathers from Archaeopteryx, a famous fossil linking dinosaurs and birds, reveals that the feathers of this early bird were patterned -- light in colour, with a...

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High diversity of flying reptiles in England 110 million years ago

Pterosaurs are an extinct group of flying reptiles that are only abundant in very few deposits. One of these is situated in England, where hundreds of fossils of these animals, that covered the skies...

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Deep biosphere harbors active, growing communities of microorganisms

The deep biosphere -- the realm of sediments far below the seafloor -- harbors a vast ecosystem of bacteria, archaea, and fungi that are actively metabolizing, proliferating, and moving, according a...

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When will the next megathrust hit the west coast of North America?

A new study presents our first glimpse back in geologic time of the recurrence interval of large and megathrust earthquakes impacting the vulnerable BC outer coastline. ...Read More →

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Life underground: Microbes active far beneath seafloor

Genetic researchers have revealed active bacteria, fungi and other microbes living in 5 million-year-old ocean sediment. ...Read More →

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Fossil kangaroo teeth reveal mosaic of Pliocene ecosystems in Queensland

The teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5-5-million-years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands and much less arid than...

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Medieval leprosy genomes shed light on disease’s history

Scientists have reconstructed a dozen medieval and modern leprosy genomes -- suggesting a European origin for the North American leprosy strains found in armadillos and humans, and a common ancestor of...

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Putting flesh on the bones of ancient fish: Synchrotron X-rays reconstruct...

Scientists present for the first time miraculously preserved musculature of 380 million year old armored fish discovered in north-west Australia. This research will help scientists to better understand...

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How diving mammals evolved underwater endurance

Scientists have shed new light on how diving mammals, such as the sperm whale, have evolved to survive for long periods underwater without breathing. ...Read More →

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Menopause may be an unintended outcome of men’s preference for younger mates

After decades of laboring under other theories that never seemed to add up, biologists have concluded that menopause is actually an unintended outcome of natural selection generated by men's historical...

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Study of oceans’ past raises worries about their future

Scientists have now completed the first global study of changes that occurred in a crucial component of ocean chemistry, the nitrogen cycle, at the end of the last ice age. The results of their study...

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