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- Scientists find the earliest evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal
- Saint Anthony of Padua revealed in stunning facial approximation
- 7-foot-long arthropods commanded the sea 470 million years ago, 'exquisite' fossils show
- Massive tentacled microbe may be direct ancestor of all complex life
- People 'finger painted' the skulls of their ancestors red in the Andes a millennium ago
- December 22
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- Transparent glassfrogs 'vanish' at night by hiding red blood cells in liver
- Tomb of 'Jesus' midwife' excavated, revealing remarkable courtyard and oil lamps
- Attila the Hun raided Rome due to starvation, not bloodlust, study suggests
- 'Mind-boggling' alloy is Earth's toughest material, even at extreme temperatures
- More than 150 'made-from-scratch' genes are in the human genome. 2 are totally unique to us.
- Protective gold idols and 'rejuvenating' amulets found in ancient Egyptian burials
- December 21
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- In a 1st, baby's heart defect successfully treated with injected stem cells
- Mars InSight lander sends bittersweet goodbye selfie after 4 years of revealing the Red Planet's mysteries
- One of the world's largest lasers could be used to detect alien warp drives
- Massive graveyard of fossilized shark teeth found deep in the Indian Ocean
- Why do Christmas lights always get tangled?
- December 20
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- Female zebra shark opts for 'virgin birth' even when sharing a tank with healthy males
- Scientists invent 1st 'vagina-on-a-chip'
- This wasp uses its prickly penis to escape certain death
- Aerial investigation reveals 168 previously unnoticed Nazca Lines in Peru
- Massive earthquake that shook Mars is 5 times stronger than any other
- December 19
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- Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated
- Shock wave from sun has opened up a crack in Earth's magnetic field, and it could trigger a geomagnetic storm
- US military reports 'several hundred' UFO sightings in 2022, Pentagon officials claim
- Doctors film microscopic worms dancing inside man's scrotum
- What is Occam's razor?
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- Ancestors of 'veggie' dinosaurs actually feasted on meat
- Grapefruit-size fireball from mysterious Oort Cloud could rewrite the history of the solar system
- American black bears are evolving to have cinnamon-colored coats, study finds
- Dangerous strep infection surging in the UK may be spreading in US
- Egyptian ring featuring 'god of fun' discovered in ancient burial
- Uncovered toilets shoot out aerosol plumes 'like a rocket' in laser-illuminated videos
- 'Mars' interior is not behaving,' active mantle plume reveals
- Scientists finally discovered the snake clitoris, and they're 'very excited'
- Stunning 'ice pancakes' swirl on the surface of Scottish river
- What is a Christmas Yule log?
- 4,000-year-old 'shaman' burial near Stonehenge has a golden secret
- December 15
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- Uncontrollable coolant leak on Russian ISS capsule puts future missions in jeopardy
- Likeness of Cambrian critter finally revealed, and it looks like a taco
- Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests
- A new omicron subvariant is spreading in China. Here's what we know so far.
- More than 70 children sickened in Ohio measles outbreak
- Ancient Egyptian 'masterpiece' is so realistic, researchers identified the exact bird species it depicts
- December 14
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- 'Butterfly disease' makes the skin incredibly fragile, but a new gene therapy helps it heal
- Lost remains of last known Tasmanian tiger found hidden in museum cabinet
- James Webb Space Telescope captures 'extraordinary' clouds in the atmosphere of Saturn's alien moon Titan
- How gravitational waves can 'see inside' black holes
- 5,000-year-old 'bog body' found in Denmark may be a human sacrifice victim
- December 13
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- Disease-riddled skeletons suggest leprosy and smallpox ravaged medieval German village
- Nuclear fusion reactor 'breakthrough' is significant, but light-years away from being useful
- Nuclear fusion reactor core produces more energy than it consumes in world-first demonstration
- Listen to a Martian dust storm engulf the Perseverance rover in eerie, world-first audio recording
- How we found Britain's only known Roman mosaic of the Trojan War
- See Mars 'peek out' from behind the moon in stunning eclipse photo
- Male jaguar rivals pair up for years in unexpected bromances
- Notre Dame's spire had 2 hidden coffins beneath it. Now, scientists know who was buried there.
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- Céline Dion's muscle spasms caused by rare disorder: What is stiff-person syndrome?
- Deadly 'rogue wave' smashes into cruise ship near Antarctica — but where did it come from?
- Nobody took John F. Clauser's quantum experiments seriously. 50 years later, he's collecting a Nobel Prize.
- Distant 'hell planet' with diamond core is the victim of a gravitational catastrophe
- Mangled 'dragon' fossils were cooked by ancient continents colliding to form Pangaea
- Did long-necked dinosaurs' whip-like tails really break the sound barrier? Not so fast.
- December 8
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- How did the Milky Way form?
- Gold-and-garnet cross necklace found buried with wealthy medieval British woman
- Your dog's genes, but not necessarily its breed, play a big role in its behavior
- Oddly modern skull raises new questions about the early evolution of birds
- 'Jousting ankylosaurs' whacked their peers with their 'sledgehammer-like tails'
- Man holding penis and flanked by leopards is world's oldest narrative carving
- December 7
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- Mammals were already poised to take over the world before the dino-killing asteroid struck
- Radioactive space rocks could have seeded life on Earth, new research suggests
- The brightest, most energetic explosions in the universe don't come from where we thought
- 'Quantum time flip' makes light move simultaneously forward and backward in time
- World's oldest DNA reveals secrets of lost Arctic ecosystem from 2 million years ago
- Alien life on Venus? No chance, says new NASA study
- Surprising loss of sea ice after record-breaking Arctic storm is a mystery to scientists
- Heartbreaking photo reveals a baby baboon still clinging to its dead mother as she's carried away by a leopard
- This year's flu shots are a 'very good match' to circulating strains, health officials say
- December 6
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- The largest telescope on Earth is coming to hunt radio-waves from the early universe
- Woman who spontaneously vomited up to 30 times a day likely had rogue antibodies
- Ancient mummy portraits and rare Isis-Aphrodite idol discovered in Egypt
- 'Zombie' viruses have been revived from Siberian permafrost. Could they infect people?
- Emperor king's top secret assassination letter finally decrypted after 500 years
- World's largest communication satellite is a photobombing menace, astronomers warn
- Watch the 'Cold Moon' eclipse Mars during the final full moon of 2022
- The Elgin Marbles may finally return to Greece, 200 years after being removed by British nobility
- December 5
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- Woman's name and tiny sketches hidden in 1,200-year-old manuscript
- Search for alien life just got 1,000 times bigger after new telescope joins the hunt
- Medieval man buried in Poland had two kinds of dwarfism
- Monstrous 'gorgons' survived a mass extinction, but they were a 'dead clade walking'
- Scientists unlocked the secrets to bats' heavy metal growls
- Where on Earth does the sun rise first?
- December 4
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- FDA approved a 1st-of-its-kind treatment made from human poop. What does it do?
- Ancient lizard with teeth like butcher knives 're-calibrates the whole shebang' of reptile evolution
- The great romance of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, in All About History 124
- Colossal 'planet killer' asteroid sparked mega-tsunami on Mars, and now we know where it landed
- Massive eruption from icy volcanic comet detected in solar system
- December 1
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- A man went to the doctor about a cough. It turns out, he had a 6-inch mass in his chest.
- 'Sacred' owl carvings from Copper Age may actually be children's toys
- Noodle-necked swimming dinosaur may have been a diving predator like a penguin
- Shingles infection causes man's bladder to burst in rare case
- Wormhole simulated in quantum computer could bolster theory that the universe is a hologram
- Gold tongues found in 2,000-year-old mummies in Egypt
