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Oil drilling, mining blocked from southeast New Mexico cave system
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoExisting, valid mineral rights remained in place. No new prospecting permits or mineral leasing...
How do fireflies light up?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoWhen fireflies have finished metamorphosing and reach adulthood, they make new light organs. But the overall system is the same, with light coming from...
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· 9 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...
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· 5 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," ...
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...
How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors
The Raw Story· 3 days agoThe Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike....
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...
