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Snakes once had legs: Here's how they lost them 100 million years ago

How snakes lost their legs: A buried skull in Patagonia, a broken genetic switch, and the ghost legs still hiding inside pythons, scientists are finally closing in on one of evolution's strangest disappearing acts.

The Economic Times · Jul 30

34 People Share What They Believe Is The Biggest Scandal In Human History

I blame Adam and Eve...

Bored Panda · Jun 19, 2025

Meteorite crashing to Earth can be heard for the first time ever because of a Ring camera

The meteorite landed in Prince Edward Island, caught with visual and sound on camera, and narrowly missing the cameras owner

Digital Camera World · Jan 16, 2025

Mystery minerals 'never seen before' found in 15-ton meteorite that crashed down to Earth

The huge rock slammed into Somalia in 2020 and a small slice was sent to a team at the University of Alberta in Canada who found the two minerals

Daily Mirror · Dec 30, 2022

Two never-before-seen minerals found inside giant meteorite that fell to Earth from space

Scientists at the University of Alberta have uncovered two new "interesting" elements in a 3,000lb meteorite that crashed in Somalia in 2020 - as a third mineral is currently being analysed

Daily Mirror · Nov 30, 2022

Researchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in Somalia

‘Phenomenal’ finds are named elaliite and elkinstantonite, and Canadian scientists are analysing third mineral

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2022

Siberian Ancient Dogs Relied on Humans to Eat Fish, New Study Suggests

As early as 7,400 years ago, Siberian dogs had evolved to be far smaller than wolves, making them more dependent on humans for food including sea mammals and fish trapped below the ice, a new study showed. Robert Losey of the University of Alberta, who led the research published in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 26, 2022

Special Report: Climate-smart food

Climate change is taking a tremendous toll on the world’s food systems, leading scientists to rethink how we feed ourselves.

360info · Jun 26, 2022

1 in 9 COVID hospital patients die or get readmitted within 30 days, study finds

One in 9 hospitalized COVID-19 patients die or get readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being sent home, a new study has found.

Tribune News Service · May 16, 2022

Ancient DNA suggests woolly mammoths roamed the Earth more recently than previously thought

In 2010, small cores of permafrost sediments were collected by a team at the University of Alberta from gold mines in the Klondike region of central Yukon. They had remained in cold storage until paleogeneticists at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre applied new genomics techniques to better understand the global…

The Conversation · Jan 23, 2022