Beef jerky and some woolly mammoths have at least one thing in common: Drying turns their DNA into super-tough glass.
This glassy DNA is so stable that it preserved the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes in one woolly mammoth…
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Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a Century
Newswise — The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a ‘dinner plate’, has been described in a new paper published today.
The specimen,…
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Life Underground Suited New Dinosaur Fine
Newswise — The age of dinosaurs wasn’t conducted solely above ground. A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The…
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Lost world discovered beneath Antarctic ice
A large-scale transcontinental river system from the Eocene era, dating back 44 to 34 million years ago, has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice.
The results of a study, published in the journal Science Advances, documents a geochronological…
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Researchers develop predictive model for cross-border COVID spread
As COVID-19 spread globally in 2020, many countries swiftly closed their borders to prevent the disease from entering. However, there was little scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of such measures.
While post-COVID research has…
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Why this year’s climate conditions helped Hurricane Beryl smash records
Hurricane Beryl, the Atlantic Ocean’s first hurricane in 2024, began roaring across the Caribbean in late June, wreaking devastation on Grenada and other Windward Islands as it grew in power. It’s now swirling on like a buzzsaw…
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New study upends prevailing theory on transportation of Stonehenge bluestones
A new study, published in the Quaternary Newsletter journal, suggests that the Bristol Channel was a glacial transport route.
This is evidenced by a large glacial erratic discovered in Limeslade Bay, which has its origins in North Pembrokeshire. A…
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Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before
Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and biology of these extinct ocean-dwelling…
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Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons
Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones.
Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls, researchers describe June 27 in…
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The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct
Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath.
Living on that island, isolated from other mammoths, could have led to fatal levels of inbreeding…
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