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It’s written all over your face: To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think
Team spirit: Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.
For a big view of inner Earth, catch a few…Geoneutrinos
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Dinosaur day care dads

A new study shows some male dinosaurs may have been the primary caretakers of their young.
Found in: Life and Paleontology
Extreme preservation gives fly's eye view

The cell-by-cell detail of a 45 million-year–old retina is preserved in amber
Found in: Biology, Life and Paleontology
Bacteria may play big role in forming fossils

Bacteria can build a biofilm that preserves a tissue's structure.
Found in: Earth, Earth Science and Paleontology
Mammoth genome approaching completion

Genetic material extracted from the hair of woolly mammoths has revealed new information about the extinct creatures, including how closely related they are to modern elephants.
Found in: Genes & Cells, Life, Paleobiology, Paleontology and Zoology
FOR KIDS: The search for the missing fossils

Scientists discover fossils of a creature that had both fish and land animal features.
Found in: Life, Paleontology, Science News For Kids and Zoology
Oldest evidence for complex life in doubt

Chemical biomarkers in ancient Australian rocks, once thought to be the oldest known evidence of complex life on Earth, may have infiltrated long after the sediments were laid down, new analyses suggest.
Found in: Chemistry, Earth Science and Paleontology
How pterosaurs took flight

Extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs may have taken to the air with a technique akin to leapfrogging, new research suggests.
Found in: Paleontology
Fossil find may document largest snake

Rocks beneath a coal mine in Colombia have yielded fossils of what could be the world's largest snake, a 12.8-meter–long behemoth that's a relative of today's boa constrictors.
Found in: Life and Paleontology
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