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This is believed to be the first evidence of a pathological response to a bacterial infection in a dinosaur.

Now the leg bone of an iguanodon has revealed information about the health of the dinosaur it once belonged to. A fossil leg ...
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Autism Diagnosis Risks “Losing Its Meaning," Says Veteran Researcher. Others Say Her Arguments Just Don’t Stack Up

IFLScience spoke to Dame Uta Frith, who has studied autism for 60 years and whose belief that a radical change in diagnosis ...
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BepiColombo Reaches Critical New Milestone – Here's Why It's The Best Mission You May Not Have Heard Of

BepiColombo is a mission like no other. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...
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Tiny Fossil Pawprints Dating Back 54 Million Years Are The First Known Mammal Footprints Ever Found In Antarctica

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary ...
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These Weird Hexagonal Fossils Have Puzzled Scientists For Centuries. Now, We Finally Know What The Maker Of Paleodictyon Looks Like

Considered one of palaeontology’s longest-running cold cases, Paleodictyon has been confusing scientists for centuries. In ...
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Japan Culled Around 12,000 Asian Black Bears Last Year – Potentially Wiping Out 20 Percent Of The Global Population

While getting an accurate count of live bears is a difficult task, estimates put the total number of Asian black bears ...
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Saturn Has A Decagonal-Shaped Wave At Its South Pole To Go With The Hexagon In The North

It’s not often amateur astronomers get to collaborate with the Hubble Space Telescope, but together they have captured a wave developing around Saturn’s south pole with 10 even sides and equal angles.