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William Brune Trees Glow During Thunderstorms, and Scientists Finally Caught It on Camera
You can’t see it with your eyes. But a camera can.
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Lorenzo Marchetti The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
It’s a butthole. It’s functional. It’s unglamorous. It’s also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built.
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AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/ Contributor/Getty Images This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old ‘Smiling’ Fossil Isn’t What It Seems
Britain’s Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand.
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Three Lions/Stringer/Getty Images CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice
Researchers found that children who were sacrificed to appease the gods were drunk and drugged for up to a year before they died.
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Elena Panfilo/NSU Press Service Mummified Skull Reveals Iron Age Woman Survived Brutal Jaw Surgery
The scans showed the woman’s right temporomandibular joint, your TMJ hinge near the ear, had been destroyed.
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Photo: MARIOS07 / Getty Images Life Hiding Deep Beneath Earth May Be Waiting Thousands of Years to Wake Up
How does anything become well-adapted to “almost nothing” for thousands of years?
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Photo: LuckyBusiness / Getty Images Scientists Pinpointed the Most Exhausting Decade of Your Life
Pro tip: start lifting weights now.
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Xinhua News Agency/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Butterfly Scientists Just Grew in Space
The butterfly hatched while aboard the station and then lived in orbit, adapting to microgravity with seemingly no trouble.
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MEDITERRANEAN/GETTY IMAGES Why Scientists Are Rethinking What They Know About Greenland Sharks
Everything about them screams old and ancient. But what’s really going on?
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THE PALMER/GETTY IMAGES Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop
These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.
