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Zealandia sank beneath ocean tens of millions of years ago, but scientists are pulling up remnants of it to study how it used to be
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The animals were once hunted to the brink of extinction, but are now recovering
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As questions of animal cruelty, artistic freedom swirl, three major works were pulled from "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World"
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Scientists are hopeful but cautious about the initial results of the test
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Thomas Crapper's actual innovation was entirely tangential to the flush toilet
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It's the straw that bends, not the person
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By triangulating measurements, scientists could soon detect these once elusive energy bursts on a weekly basis with greater precision than ever before
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Archaeologists in Boston hope the outhouse will reveal the diet and detritus of the families that lived on the site
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Survey shows the institutions preserve one third of Earth's plant life and 40 percent of endangered plant species
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The herbivorous creature last tromped across the state roughly 66 million years ago
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Next June, women in the ultra-patriarchal society will become the last in the world to receive driver's licenses
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The chunk of ice is roughly four times the size of Manhattan
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Observed flailing around in Taiwan, this so-called 'alien' turns out to be a horsehair worm
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Sink your teeth into the family friendly “Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt”
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Anatomy theaters were an early site for science as spectacle
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Found in Jerusalem, the little hoppers could have been an afterlife snack or a symbol of rejuvenation
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The scientists who pioneered it were regarded as pariahs, even within their own universities
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The settlement was first spotted in declassified Cold War spy images from the 1960s
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But some critics have questioned whether the institution adequately represents black African artists
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A new agricultural analysis of the island finds that the crop could have supported more than 17,000 people
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