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11 November 2024

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12 August 2022

Butterflies just love ants ---.

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Elephant v. Man

Elephant v. Man

Elephants via Shutterstock The first "men", Homo erectus, are known to have eaten elephant. Instead of berries and nuts and shellfish from the shore, the steaks must have created a...

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Lake sediment is time capsule

Lake sediment is time capsule

Palisade Head, Lake Superior via Shutterstock Sediment acts as a time capsule, recording the history of any area with a lake. That's the view of the director of the Large...

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Possible gypsum deposit may reveal Martian mysteries

Possible gypsum deposit may reveal Martian mysteries

'Homestake' Vein in Color. This color view of a mineral vein called "Homestake" comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity; Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/ASU Since January...

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Plant insect-repellent used in Stone Age

Plant insect-repellent used in Stone Age

Plant bedding was found at the Sibudu rock shelter in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Researchers found at least 15 layers of sediment containing plant bedding, dated between 77,000 and 38,000...

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Mammoth cloning possible

Mammoth cloning possible

Mammoth Cloning via Shutterstock Japan and Russia are collaborating at last. It's all on behalf of a mammoth found a few months ago in Batagay in the Sakha Republic (in...

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Tokyo fuels OK!

Tokyo fuels OK!

EV-STER exterior (Small Sports EV); Credit: © Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Take Tokyo today. It is full of (necessarily) smallelectric cars, but the worldwide thirst for automobilia japonica is less...

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Learning to read the fossil language

Learning to read the fossil language

Fossil snails known as turritellid gastropods; they're about 13 million years old; Credit: Shanan Peters Caught as we currently are in a global ecological crisis - fast-tracked global warming that...

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