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Chilean mummies prove Europeans brought smallpox to the Americas
The 500-year-old smallpox DNA is the oldest ever found in the Americas.
Roman soldiers pelted rebels with signed slingshot bullets
The artifacts have the initials of a general charged with quelling an uprising in present-day Spain.
Ice Age humans preferred hunting female woolly mammoths
Scientists also found a mammoth that was neither biologically female or male.
Blobby chicken kidney sponges clean dirty water surprisingly well
The filter-feeding invertebrates thrived and even reproduced in a Spanish port.
Bald eagle Jackie out of ICU, but not out of danger
The injured eagle still requires 24-hour monitoring.
Curiosity rover spots ancient sea of Martian polygons
The honeycomb-shaped geometric formations surround an 20-foot-tall butte.
Mysterious shark spotted near the Galápagos Islands for the first time in over 20 years
The famed archipelago may be home to a smooth hammerhead shark nursery.
A vast world of rock-eating fungi lurks deep underneath the Great Lakes
Researchers discovered a vibrant ecosystem that is ‘dark, ancient, and almost entirely hidden’ from humans.
40-foot-long Kronosaurus ate a 23-foot-long marine reptile who ate a pterosaur, fossil shows
Amateur fossil hunters helped discover evidence of a Cretaceous Era food chain in the Australian Outback.
Rare twin lemurs born at New York’s Central Park Zoo
The new Critically Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs are particularly fond of bananas.
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