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A crocodile fossil pulled from the same Egyptian limestone as the Great Sphinx spent nearly 100 years under the wrong name, and like the monument, it is missing the ti…

Crocodile fossil from the Sphinx's limestone, about 45 million years old, gets its own genus, Herugavialis, after CT scans of ...
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Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano has not produced a major lava flow since 1772, and satellite radar now shows separate magma reservoirs beneath it behaving in opposit…

Masaya volcano in Nicaragua shows two magma reservoirs on Sentinel-1 radar: one deep pocket swelling since 2022, a shallow ...
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus sorts its own ocean into tiny ice grains that hit up to 620 mph, and scientists say that could make signs of life much easier to spot

Saturn's moon Enceladus sorts ocean salts into ice grains moving up to 620 mph, and a deep-sea microbe grew in a lab copy of ...
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Japan clamped down on groundwater pumping in Osaka after the land sank more than 6 feet, and decades later satellites show the city rising again, just faster on one …

Groundwater pumping sank Osaka more than 6 feet, and satellites now show parts of the region rising up to half an inch a year ...
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Roman soldiers guarded a German forest fort for 150 years, and archaeologists digging just inches below the forest floor have found a temple of Mars and a pin hi…

Mars found beside a Roman fort in Germany's Taunus forest, with 2 votive stones, a Victoria statuette and a brooch hinting at ...
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Czech cave explorers and a robot have measured the Hranice Abyss to 1,476 feet underwater, and a decade after it became the world’s deepest flooded cave, nobod…

Hranice Abyss reaches at least 1,476 feet underwater, a robot found the passage still going, and a decade after its record, ...
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A Swiss glacier has pulled back far enough to reveal a larch that stopped growing about 10,300 years ago, and its still-attached roots show the tree grew on ground t…

Swiss glacier retreat at Morteratsch exposed a larch trunk with roots that stopped growing about 10,300 years ago, on ground ...
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Chinstrap penguin droppings across Antarctica release an estimated 540,000 tons of methane a year, and the bare ground between the guano patches gives off almost n…

Penguin droppings across Antarctica release about 540,000 U.S. tons of methane a year, a study of chinstrap colonies on ...
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A Hawaiian tree snail vanished from the wild after Hawaii brought in a predator to fight a garden pest, and 33 years later it is back behind walls that keep its hunters out

Hawaii’s state snail program has put a Hawaiian tree snail back into the wild after more than 33 years in a lab. On December ...
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Twenty family dogs listened to nonstop invented words while wearing electrodes, and scientists found that dog brains lock onto the same hidden detail of speech that hu…

Dog brains track consonant patterns in speech much like human brains do, a Science study of 20 family dogs and 20 adults in ...
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Norway’s largest Viking coin hoard has grown to 5,550 coins since two metal detectorists found it in a field, and an archaeologist cataloging them spotted one st…

Viking coin hoard at Mørstad, Norway, now counts 5,550 silver coins, and cataloging turned up a rare penny of Olaf Haraldsson ...
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A 194-year-old giant tortoise named Jonathan has some gene switches as orderly as those of tortoises a fraction of his age, and scientists think part of his secret lies in h…

Jonathan has 272 gene switches as orderly as in tortoises aged 5 and 12, and 35 are tied to how his cells make energy.