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A new map of arthropod evolution, from fossils to embryos
A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...
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Some Viking Women Purposefully Elongated Their Skulls 1,000 Years Ago, New Study Suggests
Researchers in Sweden just uncovered the remains of three 8th to 11th-century Viking women whose skulls were elongated into ...
NASA rover discovers out-of-place 'Skull' on Mars, and scientists are baffled
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has discovered unusual "float" rocks on the rim of Jezero Crater while searching for signs ...
The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...
They Mapped Every Neuron in a Grain of Brain – And Revealed How We See
A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...
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The ancient depictions of Easter in England’s churches
Easter is the most important festival of the Christian calendar, and so it is unsuprising that most of England’s ...