Evolution
These Dinosaurs Had a Complicated Air Conditioner in Their Skull
Cooling 5,000-pound, armor-plated giants was no small feat.
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Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats’ Radar
New research finds they fly around on noise-cancelling wings
Evolution
Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy
As museums reopen let’s introduce ourselves, and our children, to the original Black ancestors of all human beings
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Cancer Clues Found in Gene behind ‘Lemon Frost’ Gecko Color
Research has solved a macabre mystery, and the finding could one day help efforts to catch human melanomas earlier
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This Newly Discovered Species of Tree Hyrax Goes Bark in the Night
A study makes the case for the new species based on its looks, genes and sounds
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Animal Kids Listen to Their Parents Even before Birth
Human children: please take note of the behavior of prebirth zebra finches
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Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water
We are more dependent on water than many other mammals and have developed a host of clever strategies for obtaining it
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Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age, Most Adorable Study of the Year Confirms
Researchers in the happiest lab in the world tested 375 pups and found they connected with people by eight weeks
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At the Bottom of Lake Huron, an Ancient Mystery Materializes
The air was likely frigid as the hunter lit a small fire. The caribou would come in the morning—forced through the narrow strip of marshland where he camped. There was nowhere else to go...
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Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound
A new experiment shows that bats are born with a fixed reference for the speed of sound—and living in lighter air can throw it off.
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New Process Helps Unscramble Dinosaur Boneyard Chaos
Piecing together a paleontological puzzle
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Evolution’s Favorite Fish Diversify through ‘Noncoding’ Genes
Proliferating cichlids may specialize using regulatory DNA
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Who Laps Whom on the Walking Track—Tyrannosaurus rex or You? Science Has a New Answer
An analysis of the animal’s walking speed suggests that T. rex ’s walking pace was close to that of a human. It’s too bad the king of the dinosaurs didn’t just walk when hungry...
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Genes Linked to Self-Awareness in Modern Humans Were Less Common in Neandertals
Brain networks for memory and planning may have set us apart from Neandertals—and chimps
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How 3-D Scanning Is Reinventing Paleoanthropology
It lets us excavate ancient fossils while preserving information about the sediments that hold them—crucial to understanding their age, among other things
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Genomes Reveal Humanity’s Journey into the Americas
DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents
Arts & Culture
How to Make a Hippogriff Fly and Other Flights of Fancy
A paleontologist and an illustrator team up to make mythical creatures follow biomechanical rules
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Boston’s Pigeons Coo, ‘Wicked’; New York’s Birds Coo, ‘Fuhgeddaboudit’
The two cities’ rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows.
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The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest
Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain forest...
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A Tsunami Likely Hurled Huge Rocks onto a Tiny Island
A Caribbean island’s giant rocks were thought to be deposited by enormous waves
