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The unlikeliest catch: sea creatures found trapped in amber

Talk about a stunning find!

Plastic pollution may harm marine bacteria that produces 5% of the world's oxygen

One of the world's most fascinating tiny creature may be threatened by chemicals from marine plastic debris.

Why snails coil in one direction -- and how to change it

On today's menu: CRISPR-y snails.

Team sequences the pan-genome of tomatoes in a bid to make them tasty again

Tastefully done.

Robots and AI can help us better understand deep sea species, study reports.

We're fishing for information in the deep seas.

Man in New Zealand finds 12-million-year-old footprints of giant flightless bird

He was merely going on a swim and came across footprints of ancient moas.

Deep-sea fish developed super vision to cope with abyssal darkness

Why would it evolve that way? Researchers have an idea.

Penguin and seal poop create biodiversity hotspots in Antarctica

Poop comes in to save the day!

Bat-winged dinosaur discovered in China -- only the second of its kind

This dinosaur was more like a flying squirrel than a bird.

Researchers hack plants to use less water so we don't starve when climate change hits hard

These plants will drink responsibly -- whether they want it or not!

Scientists find miniature T-Rex ancestor

A smaller relative to the king of the dinosaurs.

Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber

It's nearly 100 million years old.

Feathered dinosaurs may have accidentally developed flying -- while running

Fake it till you make it.

There are arsenic-breathing microbes in the tropical Pacific, a new study finds

Oxygen? In this economy?! Pffff.

Climate change may make the oceans belch out CO2, study warns

Oh, how the waters have turned.

Most detailed survey yet finds 200,000 species of viruses living in the oceans

There's a lot of life in the oceans.

Slime moulds learn by absorbing substances

This simple creature can learn, teach, and memorize, without a nervous system.

Great white sharks found to flee from orcas

The king of the seas has something to be afraid of.

Russian researchers extract liquid blood from frozen 42,000-year-old foal -- plan to clone it

You want Jurassic Park? Because this is how you get Jurassic Park.

Scientists create artificial material capable of metabolism, self-assembly, movement, and organization -- key traits of life

If it was capable of multiplying, it would essentially be life.

How the snailfish survives more than 6 km beneath the surface

This could help us understand how creatures can survive in the crushing and frigid depths of the oceans.

Our immune systems may actually help create cavities, a new study finds

Is this mutiny?!

Fossil Friday: new study says Texas used to be a 'veritable Serengeti' 11 to 12 million years ago

If you like cool photos of fossils, we've got just the paper for you!

Wolves can cooperate with humans as well as dogs, but in different ways

Wolves take more initiative, whereas dogs are more human-oriented.

Cold plasma reactor neutralizes 99.9% of airborne viruses in new study

Breathe in deep -- it's safe.

The International Space Station is teeming with bacteria and fungi

Step 1: live on hairless primate. Step 2: wait for said primate to go to space. Step 3: PROFIT!

Scientists find superhot "mirror" pools in unique deep Pacific environment

The environments are also teeming with life.

Different personalities help species face and adapt to threats, environmental changes

Divided we stand!

Ancient amphibious whale with four legs and hooves dared to cross the Atlantic

This creature had a whale of a time.

Fossil Friday: Jurassic crocodile shows us how the scaly killers came to be

The team says it looked more like a dolphin than a crocodile.

Bacteria coaxed into making high-performance proteins for space missions

The National Aeronautics and Spider Silk Administration is very excited about this study.

Here's how Skrillex’s music could help fight Zika and dengue fever

Dubstep seems to entertain mosquitoes, which become less interested in feeding on humans or having sex.

Saving the Honey Bee: Can New Genomic Clues Help Solve the Colony Collapse Mystery?

Science to the rescue!

Sea snakes can dive up to 250 meters deep -- that's 800 feet

Snakes have taken to the deep sea.

Researchers identify clump of neurons that block, or allow, frightful memories into our minds

Fear is the mind killer.

The waters around Galapagos are riddled with invasive species

The Galapagos is being invaded by alien species.

Newly discovered virus turns amoeba into stone

Scientists have named it the Medusavirus.

Britain is going through a "widespread loss" of pollinating insects, study reports

Not good!

Largest T. rex skeleton ever found lived in Canada up to its early 30s

It was probably really polite and liked hockey, too.

Queen bumblebees take long breaks in the grass after hibernating

Researchers say that you should help queen bees if you see them exhausted on the ground, by providing a teaspoon of sugary water.

Stunning 500-million-year-old fossil trove offers insight into how life evolved

It's one of the most spectacular findings in recent history.

Paleontologists find 110-million-year-old bird fossil with unlaid egg still inside it

A unique find that sheds new light on the reproductive abilities of ancient birds.

New method spots counterfeit food and medicine for cheap, by filming how it freezes

Be sure to post it on Instagram, too! #lunch #realfood

Time flies as we age because our brains get bigger and less efficient, a new paper proposes

'Clock time' is not the same as 'mind time'.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, then this new cellulose aerogel will heal them

Nifty.

Eating bad PUFAs may put you at risk of developing asthma -- but fish contains the good PUFAs

I'm thrilled that PUFAs is an actual scientific term.

Our ships carry invasive species, not just trade -- and it is rapidly getting worse

Your package has arrived sir, it seems to be a pair of socks. The zebra mussel is on the house.

Researchers develop way to trap and study bacteria so we can fight disease and antibiotic resistance

Shhh! I'm hunting bactewwia!

New research identifies the 'taste center' of our brains

Sweet!

Fossil Friday: Newly-found fossil teeth solve ancient monkey mystery

Take a bite out of this story.

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