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Shireen Gonzaga
Rare salamander eggs finally hatch
Four months ago, a rare salamander species known as an olm - once believed to be baby dragons - laid 60 rare eggs. Now the eggs have hatched!
June 7, 2016
Pleiades setting through Sappho’s eyes
Sappho, a renowned poet of ancient Greece, wrote of the Pleiades star cluster setting at midnight. Scientists have wondered, what time of year did she see it?
May 30, 2016
Baby dino was self-reliant mini-me
But, in the case of the fossil bones examined in this new study, the baby dinosaur lived only weeks, apparently dying of starvation.
May 10, 2016
Did human limbs evolve from shark gills?
The Sonic Hedgehog gene drives embryonic development of mammal limbs and shark gills. Could our limbs have evolved from gills?
April 30, 2016
Moon rocks reveal nearby supernova
Iron-60 found in moon rocks supports an earlier finding that - 2 million years ago - a supernova exploded only 300 light-years away.
April 25, 2016
Spiders with super-fast mousetrap mouths
In the forests of South America and New Zealand, trap-jaw spiders have mouths clamp down on their quarry like a mousetrap, at lightning speeds.
April 15, 2016
Evolution insights from a walking cavefish
Fish evolved into the first land vertebrates 420 million years ago. Clues to that fins-to-limbs transformation may lie in a walking blind cavefish in Thailand.
March 30, 2016
Snapshot of early human ancestors’ lives
Scientists used fossil remains and primitive tools to build a vivid description of what life was like for our early human ancestors, 1.8 million years ago.
March 20, 2016
Hummingbirds’ extraordinary migratory marathons
With fat deposits that almost double their weight, the tiny ruby-throated hummingbird can fly non-stop for more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) during migration.
March 15, 2016
Meteorite reveals rare unstable element
A pink meteorite inclusion nicknamed Curious Marie shows that a highly unstable element, curium, was present in the early solar system.
March 9, 2016
