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How Rattlesnake Blood Could Help Scientists Build Better Antivenom
Researchers found combinations of rattlesnake blood proteins could block deadly viper venom in mouse tests.
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Flat-Headed Fossils Suggest Ancient Human Babies Were as Helpless as Ours
Fossil skulls suggest Homo erectus and “Hobbit” humans may have had helpless infants who needed intense care.
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Scientists Found a Hidden World of Fungi, Worms, and Tardigrades Beneath the Great Lakes
Researchers found 689 fungal species and tiny animals in ancient water pulled from deep beneath Michigan’s Antrim Shale.
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Universal History Archive/Contributor/Getty Images The Hiroshima Bomb Created a Strange Alloy Scientists Had Never Seen Before
Researchers found the silicon-rich alloy inside microscopic fallout particles preserved in Hiroshima Bay sand.
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The World Once Had Far More Languages Than It Does Today, Study Finds
Researchers say language diversity peaked 1,000 to 3,000 years ago before empires and colonization accelerated its decline.
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Photo: Ken Griffiths / Getty Images Scientists Reveal How a Group of Inbred Snakes Took Over an Entire Island
What likely began as a tiny handful of snakes quickly snowballed into an ecological disaster.
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Photo: Wei Wang et al. / Science Advances Scientists Just Found a 245-Million-Year-Old Sea Reptile With Its Organs Still Intact
They even know the last thing it ate.
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Photo: Reinhard Dirscherl / Getty Images Archaeologists Thought These Cannibalistic Ancient Humans Ate Children. They Were Only Half Right.
So many discoveries around ancient kids suffering horrors lately.
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Archaeologists Used Lasers to Reveal Hundreds of Ancient Structures Hidden Beneath the Amazon Rainforest
A new LiDAR study found 396 previously unknown earthworks linked to the ancient Aquiry civilization.
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Scientists Found a Fossilized Food Chain From 100 Million Years Ago
Researchers say the Queensland fossil preserves evidence of a pterosaur eaten by an ichthyosaur later attacked by a larger predator.
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Humans May Have Hunted Female Mammoths More Than Males, Researchers Say
Ancient DNA from 521 mammoths suggests human-linked bone sites were mostly female, unlike natural deposits.
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Photo: Westend61 / Getty Images Scientists Say the Amount of Time Poop Stays in Your Body Could Have a Major Effect On Your Health
Don’t worry, you can always speed up your poop schedule.
