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Here the experimental chick embryo (center) can be compared to a typical chicken about to hatch (left) and an alligator (right)

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Researchers Create Chicken Embryos With Dinosaur-Like Faces

Researchers seeking to understand how birds got their beaks turned back the evolutionary clock just a tad

Local residents stand outside of buildings in the streets after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 12, 2015.

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Another Big Earthquake Has Hit Nepal

Second major quake hits as the country still struggles to recover from the last one.

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Watch the Sun Set on Mars

Curiosity takes its first color pictures of a Martian sunset

Stegodyphus lineatus

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This Spider Feeds Her Babies by Vomiting up Her Own Guts

Nothing says love like feeding your intestines to your children

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Most American Babies are Born in the Morning

Medical interventions may determine time of birth, says new study

American chestnut seed

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Turning the American Chestnut into a GMO Might be the Only Way to Save it

Adding wheat genes could help the tree fight off blight

This chocolate may look fine, but it’s just a few steps away from disaster

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X-Rays Reveal Why Old Chocolate Turns White

Liquid fat turns out to be the culprit

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Dogs are Still the Best Way to Find a Corpse

Man’s best friend is better than any machine when it comes to finding dead bodies.

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The First GMO Is 8,000 Years Old

Scientists find that bacteria modified DNA in sweet potatoes millennia ago

An ocean sunfish hangs out with pilotfishes

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Goofy Looking Ocean Sunfish Are Actually Active Swimmers and Predators

The idea that these giant fish are lazy is just wrong

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CDC Says Ebola Survivors Should Keep Using Condoms Indefinitely

The virus may survive in semen longer than originally thought

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Most Surgery Outcomes Aren’t Tracked

New analysis finds only 153 clinical registries nationwide

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A Piranha Was Just Found in an Arkansas Lake

The sharp-toothed fish was likely a pet gone rogue

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Researchers Come Closer to Making Everyone a Universal Blood Donor

The approach uses an enzyme to snip off the parts of blood cells that can prove problematic

A 1911 illustration of a vampire squid

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Poop Eating Vampire Squids Aren't Actually Squids at All

The strange-looking animals have a very different reproductive strategy than other cephalopods

Sentinel-1 image showing the effects of the April 25 earthquake in Nepal

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The Nepal Earthquake Made Mt. Everest an Inch Shorter

Satellite data gives the first results for the way the land moved during the quake

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Even Ocean Creatures Struggle With Light Pollution

Artificial lights are disrupting the lives of underwater animals

Mercury as seen by Messenger

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Today The Messenger Spacecraft Will Crash Into Mercury

After years of exciting observations and stunning pictures of Mercury, the spacecraft has run out of fuel

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Most Countries Have No Plans For When Antibiotics Stop Working

World Health Organization sounds the alarm on “one of the biggest threats to the future of global health”

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It’s Official: Rubella Has Been Eradicated From the Americas

Health officials confirm that rubella no longer originates in North or South America

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