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  • 67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing

    67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing

    A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones in the head may have helped them do it.

    In a…

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  • Rufous scrub-bird DNA project aims to safeguard ancient and elusive songbird

    Rufous scrub-bird DNA project aims to safeguard ancient and elusive songbird

    A tiny songbird species living in pockets of high-altitude rainforest since the time of the dinosaurs is having its DNA sequenced in a bid to safeguard its dwindling population.

    The Rufous scrub-bird is one of the world’s oldest surviving species…

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  • NASA wants to make history in 2026 with Artemis 2, a mission that could take humans around the Moon, marking a new step beyond Earth and preparing for a return to the Moon

    NASA wants to make history in 2026 with Artemis 2, a mission that could take humans around the Moon, marking a new step beyond Earth and preparing for a return to the Moon

    The first human mission around the Moon this century is expected to take place in 2026 with NASA’s Artemis 2 mission.

    The mission Artemis 2, NASA, could be the great space milestone of 2026The expectation is that humans…

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  • ‘We don’t know if there were fewer … or if they simply disappeared’

    ‘We don’t know if there were fewer … or if they simply disappeared’

    A shift in natural behavior by an established predator could help control an invasive fish species found in Brazilian waters. 

    Research published in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes described the intriguing activity of lemon…

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