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Photo: Bruno Becker-Kerber/Harvard University Scientists May Have Been Wrong About Earth’s Oldest Animal This Whole Time
The fossil record is ambiguous and may not always represent what you think.
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Photo: peppi18 / Getty Images Scientists Finally Found the Truth Behind the ‘Corkscrew’ Killings of Hundreds of Gray Seal Pups
The answer is much more troubling than if a human had done the horrifying killings.
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Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images A Neanderthal Tooth Proved Ancient Dentistry Existed, and It Was Absolutely Brutal
Anesthesia was not invented until the 1840s, so it’s safe to assume the Neanderthals were hardcore.
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Photo: Anna Kamyshnikova / Getty Images What Your Brain Is Actually Doing While You Doomscroll, According to Science
As eerie as it may sound, scrolling may be shaping your brain.
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Photo: Lajst / Getty Images Heavy Cannabis Use May Be Doing the Opposite of What You Want, Scientists Say
They don’t fully understand what’s happening, though.
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Photo: dpVUE.images / Getty Images The Jellyfish Fishermen Throw Away Might Soon Be on Your Face
How very human of us to think something is a meddlesome little pest… until we find a way to profit off of it.
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Photo: Steve Woods Photography / Getty Images Meet the Fish That Are Ramming Themselves Up Manta Ray Butts
When threatened, some fish apparently decide the safest place in the ocean is inside another animal’s butthole.
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The Atlantic forest (mata atlântica) and its tropical vegetation in Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. (Photo by Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Scientists Discovered a Brazilian Tree With an Unexpected Superpower
This is why we need trees.
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Photo: WhataWin / Getty Images Are Humans Really Born With Empty Brains? Science Has an Answer.
Maybe our brains are blank Word docs that we load with valuable information over time. Or maybe not.
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Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Jazz and Classical Music Structures Now Resemble Simpler Genres; Does This Imply a ‘Cultural Gray-Out’?
Modern musical structures becoming simpler doesn’t mean the artistry is fading, study clarifies.
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