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Oil drilling, mining blocked from southeast New Mexico cave system
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoExisting, valid mineral rights remained in place. No new prospecting permits or mineral leasing...
Wildfires in Arizona are getting worse due to invasive species, new study says
The Arizona Republic· 2 days agoWildfires in Arizona are burning hotter, faster and more often, in part due to a selection of...
Should we ditch the names of Hitler beetles, Mussolini butterflies?
dpa international via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoIt is just 5 millimetres long and tends to live hidden in caves and although many experts have never...
Youngest African penguins at National Aviary receive new names, join penguin colony
WPXI via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSEE PHOTOS OF THE PENGUINS! Rita Mae and Dave...social skills. In October, parents Patrick and Owen...
How do fireflies light up?
LiveScience· 4 hours agoFireflies' ability to produce their own light is called bioluminescence, which is found in select animals, bacteria and fungi all over the world. The key...
A Million-Year-Old Skull Could Prove the Dragon Man's Direct Line to Humans
Popular Mechanics· 5 days agoA reconstruction of an ancient Chinese skull may tie the Dragon Man lineage even closer to Homo...
Meet 18 ‘Aquatic-Venomous’ Animals, Revealed In Dazzling Underwater Photos
Forbes· 1 day agoMost people, when asked, are able to name a few venomous aquatic animals. Jellyfish, sea snakes and stingrays are some species that readily come to mind. Beyond mere curiosity ...
Oldest Known Human Viruses Found in 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPreviously, researchers suggested that infectious diseases could have contributed to the Neanderthals...prove that at least the genomes of these viruses can be found in Neanderthal remains," ...
China's 'heavenly pits': The giant sinkholes that have ancient forests growing within
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoChina's southwestern karst landscape is pockmarked with dozens of enormous sinkholes that look like...
The incredible case of the only known individual whose parents were two different species
UNILAD· 3 days agoA lot less is known about the Denisovans, another close relative who lived in the Lower and Middle...