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Hermit Crabs Are Using Trash as Shells Across the World, Scientists Find
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Hermit Crabs Are Using Trash as Shells Across the World, Scientists Find
Researchers analyzed photographs of the crustaceans online, identifying nearly 400 examples of artificial shells, which were often plastic bottle caps
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Archaeologists Discover 1,700-Year-Old Jade Mask Inside the Tomb of a Maya King
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Archaeologists Discover 1,700-Year-Old Jade Mask Inside the Tomb of a Maya King
Located in Guatemala, the tomb also held rare mollusk shells, carvings and other funeral offerings
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Hungry Sea Otters Help Prevent Erosion on California's Coast
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Hungry Sea Otters Help Prevent Erosion on California’s Coast
The marine mammals, which were once hunted nearly to extinction, feed on crabs that would make the land more susceptible to erosion by digging holes in the soil and eating roots
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Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side-by-Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago, Study Finds
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Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side by Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago, Study Finds
Archaeologists identified bone fragments of prehistoric modern humans in Germany, suggesting several millennia of coexistence with Neanderthals before the species disappeared
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Who Stole—and Burned—This Jackie Robinson Statue?
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Who Stole—and Burned—This Jackie Robinson Statue?
Donations poured in to help replace the bronze statue, which a youth baseball nonprofit unveiled in 2021
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Which Dogs Live the Longest? Scientists Say Small and Long-Nosed Canines Outlive Others
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Which Dogs Live the Longest? Scientists Say Small and Long-Nosed Canines Outlive Others
A new study of more than 500,000 dogs in the United Kingdom adds more nuance to our understanding of their life expectancy based on breed, size, face shape and other factors
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Why We're So Obsessed With Cute
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Why We’re So Obsessed With Cute
A London exhibition explores how cute became such a powerful—and sometimes dangerous—cultural force
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Archaeologists Discover a 'High-End' Blacksmith's Iron Age Workshop
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Archaeologists Discover a ‘High-End’ Blacksmith’s Iron Age Workshop
Found in Oxfordshire, the "smithy" was active at the beginning of a transformative era in Britain
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Stone Age People Used This 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tusk Tool to Make Rope, Scientists Say
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Stone Age People Used This 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tusk Tool to Make Rope, Scientists Say
To test their hypothesis that the perforated object was a tool, researchers used a replica to create a 16-foot-long rope from cattail reeds
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Why Do Women Get More Autoimmune Diseases? Study of Mice Hints at Answers
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Why Do Women Get More Autoimmune Diseases? Study of Mice Hints at Answers
Four in five people with an autoimmune disease are women. New research points to an RNA molecule involved in silencing one of their X chromosomes as a potential culprit
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Should Egypt Renovate This Ancient Pyramid?
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Should Egypt Renovate This Ancient Pyramid?
Officials have announced plans to rebuild the granite blocks they say once covered the Pyramid of Menkaure
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Rare Fossil Shows Trees Looked Very Different 350 Million Years Ago
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Rare Fossil Shows Trees Looked Very Different 350 Million Years Ago
The newly discovered specimen looks like something from the imagination of Dr. Seuss, and it sheds light on a little-understood era of prehistory
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Forgotten J.M.W. Turner Watercolor Discovered in an Attic
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Forgotten J.M.W. Turner Watercolor Discovered in an Attic
The painter, renowned for his atmospheric landscapes, created the sketch of Hampton Court Castle in England when he was about 21
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See Long-Lost Artifacts From Early Black Cinema
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See Long-Lost Artifacts From Early Black Cinema
Now open in Detroit, "Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971" showcases nearly 200 rare props, posters, photographs and more
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Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius' Eruption
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Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius’ Eruption
The trio used artificial intelligence to decode sections of the text, which appear to be a philosophical exploration of pleasure
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The Moon Is Shrinking, Causing Moonquakes at a Potential NASA Landing Site, Study Finds
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The Moon Is Shrinking, Causing Moonquakes at a Potential NASA Landing Site, Study Finds
Though the risk to astronauts is low, the shaking could cause landslides and impact potential long-term settlements at the lunar south pole
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Clownfish Can 'Count' Stripes on Other Fish to Identify Intruders, Study Suggests
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This Medieval Sword Spent 1,000 Years at the Bottom of a Polish River
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This Medieval Sword Spent 1,000 Years at the Bottom of a Polish River
Construction crews stumbled upon the weapon while dredging the Vistula River in Włocławek
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Do We Need a Category 6 Designation for Hurricanes?
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Do We Need a Category 6 Designation for Hurricanes?
Global warming is leading to more intense storms well above the threshold for Category 5 hurricanes, scientists write in a new paper
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Police Find Ancient Teenager’s Body, Preserved in Irish Bog for 2,500 Years
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Police Find Ancient Teenager’s Body, Preserved in Irish Bog for 2,500 Years
Nicknamed the "Bellaghy Boy," he was likely between 13 and 17 when he died around 500 B.C.E.
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