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'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claim

Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found near Chicago.

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Denisovan DNA influences the immune systems of modern Oceanians — but researchers aren't sure why

Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

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Wildlife inside Chernobyl exclusion zone acted differently during Russia's invasion, camera traps reveal

Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during the Russian occupation, highlighting the war's immediate impact on wildlife.

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5,000-year-old 'prototype' Stonehenge aligning with solstices discovered near the famous Stone Age monument

The discovery of two ancient holes at Stonehenge suggests people placed posts there to help observe the summer and winter solstices around 5,000 years ago.

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'It's a huge deal': Archaeologists discover second cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo, and it was likely fired by Texans

Archaeologists have discovered a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and now they have one from each side.

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'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists split apart a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles

Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.

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Oldest known plague victims found in a 5,500-year-old burial ground in Siberia — and many of them were children

The oldest known evidence of the plague killing people has been found in Siberia, and it carried a gene that may have made it particularly deadly for children.

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A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind landing

China's Tianwen-2 mission has arrived at the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa, which orbits the sun alongside Earth. The secretive probe will scoop up samples from our temporary companion to help uncover its mysterious origin, experts say.

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Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion people

An abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.

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5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrifice

An injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit previously used as a kiln, and he may have been sacrificed.

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Watch Venus vanish behind the moon in broad daylight today — without any special equipment

Today (June 17), the moon will pass between Earth and Venus, causing the hellish planet to temporarily disappear from the daytime sky. Here's what it will look like, exactly when it is happening and how you can safely view this skywatching spectacle.

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A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming back

An area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming.

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Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off the Philippines

The remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found off the coast of the Philippines island of Luzon.

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The world's first nuclear clock just ticked on — and it could help detect a fifth fundamental force of physics

By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that could lead to even more precise clocks and new ways to search for dark matter.

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'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds

The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.

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Elusive dwarf fox, feared extinct, photographed for the first time on island off Yucatán

The first-ever photos of a Cozumel fox prove that the mysterious island predator is still alive in Mexico but in dire need of conservation, according to researchers.

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Earth-based telescope shares image of Artemis II capsule near the moon — one of the farthest photos of humans ever taken

A blurry photo captured by the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II's Orion capsule circling the moon more than 200,000 miles away, making it a candidate for the longest-distance image of humans ever taken from Earth.

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Indonesia's near-identical, 'Twin Peaks' volcanoes form striking mirror image — Earth from space

A 2021 astronaut photo shows the surprising similarities between Mount Sundoro and Mount Sumbing, which lie at the heart of Java, Indonesia.

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Lavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome's walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius

The villa, which came to light because it was illegally excavated, was found in an area frequented two millennia ago by the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

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Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 million years ago ‪—‬ 20 million years before the Andes.

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'Melted in a pot somewhere': Vikings used Islamic silver coins to make their early pennies, study finds

The silver in a Viking Age hoard found in Denmark was from melted-down coins from the faraway Islamic world, a new study finds.

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'I never thought we'd see one alive': Elusive goblin shark captured on camera for the first time

Researchers have filmed goblin sharks in the deep sea for the first time. Until now, these sharks had been seen alive only after being hauled up to the surface with fishing lines.

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Hundreds of hidden earthquakes discovered beneath Antarctica — and they're happening in a very odd location

Antarctica was long thought to be seismically calm, but new technology makes it possible to detect unexpected types of earthquakes beneath the ice.

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An ancient piece of the moon found in Africa hints at a long-ago collision that turned the lunar surface molten

A meteorite shows evidence that an ancient crash on the moon 3.5 billion years ago was so powerful, it turned the surface molten.

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Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: A 500-year-old mask of the Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead as they entered his realm

This skull-shaped mask was made to be used in a ritual involving the Aztec god of death.

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