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Cut Marks on Animal Bones Suggest Neanderthal Groups Had Their Own Unique Culinary Traditions
Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...
Complex animals living millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion revealed by seabed tracks
The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...
This creature can 3D-print its own body parts
Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate. Most people will ...
Waterbury's Mattatuck Museum features 'The Body Imagined' figurative art exhibit
The exhibit through Sept. 28 includes 97 objects from the 20th century to the present that explore how artists have rendered, ...
The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain
We humans, for example, were animals before we became vertebrates; mammals before evolving into primates and so on. The groups of species we share each of these branches with reveal the order our body ...
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Giant Sloths and Many Other Massive Creatures Were Once Common on Our Planet. With Environmental Changes, Such Giants Could Thrive Again
If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...
Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean
We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...
How I Learned to Love My Body—Especially in the Summer
Learning to love the existence of all life on earth helped Mari Andrew let go of the blame she put on herself and her body.