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  1. Paleontology

    If wings came before flight, what were they for?

    Scientists use simulated dinosaurs to trigger real insect brains and test how wings originally evolved.

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  2. Archaeology

    Neandertals used rhinoceros teeth as tools

    Finds at sites in Spain and France suggest that Neandertals used the teeth of ancient rhinos for heavy-duty fabrication.

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  3. Animals

    Singing mice puff up air sacs to make their sweet songs

    To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any other animal.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    What to know about a rare hantavirus outbreak at sea

    Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has been human-to-human spread.

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  5. Life

    Cows’ methane burps may be fueled by a newfound organelle in gut microbes

    In cows’ guts, ciliates contain a tiny organelle called a hydrogenobody that may drive production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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  6. Animals

    Giant, kraken-like octopuses may have ruled the Cretaceous deep

    Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

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  7. Animals

    Humidity makes these bees turn green

    North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects.

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  8. Oceans

    Got pesky, invasive corals? Blast ‘em away with air guns

    Compressed air bids bye-bye to invasive sun corals in Brazil. The blasts obliterated soft tissue and fragments couldn't regenerate.

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  9. Animals

    This kea parrot is the first-known disabled alpha male

    With half a beak, Bruce has developed an innovative fighting style that has won the kea top status in his flock, videos and documented interactions reveal.

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