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Paleontologists Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...
How a student's teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada
Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological ...
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Wayne J. Arendt, PhD, Honored for Expertise in Wildlife Biology
Dr. Arendt began his career at the USDA Forest Service's International Institute of Tropical Forestry in San Juan, Puerto ...
Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
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This February, Meet the Women Transforming Science at the National Museum of Natural History
Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient ...
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
DNA building blocks found in asteroids for first time
The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
Timothy J McCoy, Smithsonian Institution and Sara Russell, Natural History Museum (THE CONVERSATION ... Since their components formed billions of years ago, they’re like chemically unchanged time ...
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Asteroid Bennu holds secrets of water evaporated billions of years ago, study shocks
Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.