Tag: evolution
A New Penguin Species Was Hiding in Plain Sight for 100 Years
For more than a century, the penguins of the Kerguelen Islands stood on black volcanic shores, launched themselves into brutal…
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Remarkable Four-Winged Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once
A spectacular new fossil preserves the skeleton and feathers of a pocket-sized predator. Its anatomy suggests that birds and their…
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Fire Amoeba Breaks a Stunning New Heat Record for Complex Life
The water looks empty. Steam drifts above a geothermal stream in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park. Beneath the surface, heat…
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Tilcayo: The New Wild Cat Species Hidden in Bolivia
A Family Thought It Was a Stray Kitten. It May Be the First New Living Cat Species Named in a…
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Is the Human Brain Two Organs? What the New Study Really Found
A new developmental study challenges the idea that the whole brain grows from one founding population of cells—and may explain…
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T. rex Was 97°F: The Amazing Secret Hidden in Its Teeth
Imagine western North America near the end of the Cretaceous, roughly 66 million years ago. It is dawn. Frost rims…
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