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These oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years
telegraphherald.com· 8 hours ago"We knew they were old, but not that old," said Michele Francis, senior lecturer in the university's...
You See a Hedge. He Sees Something Else.
New York Times· 2 days agoWhen Tim Bushe decided to trim some hedges one recent evening, he attracted more attention than usual for a routine garden chore. Mr. Bushe is used to...
A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoStudying the animal's genome will help reveal where it fits into the canine family tree. After...
One of the world’s largest T. rex skeletons just landed in Melbourne
Cosmos· 4 days agoFor the first time, Melbourne is hosting a fully articulated skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The...
What Killed the Last Woolly Mammoths? Scientists Say It Wasn't Inbreeding
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoRoughly 10,000 years ago, a small group of woolly mammoths found themselves stuck on an island off...
How did woolly mammoths go extinct? One study has an answer
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 6 days agoScientists now believe some of the last woolly mammoths on Earth may have died out due to a sudden event, a departure from previous hypotheses about their extinction. About ...
Did inbreeding cause the woolly mammoth’s extinction?
The Raw Story· 7 days agoThis is the story of how multiple generations of scientists collaborated to decipher the genome of...
Probing Microbial Dark Matter: Largest-Ever Discovery Effort Uncovers 800,000 New Antibiotic...
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoResearchers at Penn Medicine analyzed genomic data to discover new antibiotics within the global...