Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Turned Ants into Fungus Farmers, Study Says
In a new study published this week in the journal Science, researchers found that fungus-ant agriculture originated approximately 66 million
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Microbiologists Find Living Microbes in 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock
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NOIRLab Celebrates 5th Anniversary with Stunning Image of Rosette Nebula
The new image of the Rosette Nebula was taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on NSF’s Víctor M.
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Dingoes Have Evolved from East Asian Dog-Like Ancestor: Study
Dingoes are one of two remaining unadmixed populations of an early East Asian dog lineage, the other being wild dogs
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Clovis People Used Campsite in Great Lakes Region Annually, Archaeologists Say
Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of Clovis stone tools at the 13,000-year-old campsite of Belson in southwest Michigan. The post Clovis
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NASA’s Juno Orbiter Discovers New Volcano on Io
Using images from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have spotted a fresh volcano with multiple lava
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120-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Polar Dinosaurs Discovered in Australia
The newly-discovered footprints of theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs date back to the Early Cretaceous epoch, over 120 million years ago,
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Paleontologists Identify Three New Species of Fossil Thylacines
Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of three new species in the thylacinid genera Badjcinus, Nimbacinus, and Ngamalacinus in the
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Kakapo Parrot is True Ancient Species of New Zealand, Paleontologists Say
The kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) is a living species of flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. The post Kakapo Parrot is
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Ganymede Was Struck by Giant Asteroid 4 Billion Years Ago, New Research Suggests
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has an ancient impact structure called a furrow system. The post Ganymede Was Struck by Giant Asteroid
