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Weird 216-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Ancestor Started Life On 4 Legs – Then Decided The Theropod Way Was Better Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but the dinosaurs and pseudosuchian archosaurs reached this shape independently.

Weird 216-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Ancestor Started Life On 4 Legs – Then Decided The Theropod Way Was Better

Why Do Polar Bears Sometimes Adopt Other Polar Bears' Cubs? We Asked The Experts 'No matter how it happened, we do know that with a mother to protect it, feed it, and teach it how to be a polar bear, the cub’s chances of survival are far better now than if it was left on its own.'

Why Do Polar Bears Sometimes Adopt Other Polar Bears' Cubs? We Asked The Experts

A 650-Light-Year-Long Turbulent Web Of Gas Surrounds The Milky Way’s Heart We’ve never seen the center of our galaxy in such detail, and already astronomers have found something they can’t identify.

A 650-Light-Year-Long Turbulent Web Of Gas Surrounds The Milky Way’s Heart

800,000 Alerts – From Supernovae To Asteroids – Released In First Night Of New Observatory System We knew the numbers would be astronomical, but this is still a lot.

800,000 Alerts – From Supernovae To Asteroids – Released In First Night Of New Observatory System

Stunning New Image Shows Comet 3I/ATLAS After Its Closest Pass To The Sun Taken from deep-space by JUICE, a European mission bound for Jupiter.

Stunning New Image Shows Comet 3I/ATLAS After Its Closest Pass To The Sun

Over 37,000 Trees Were Planted Last Year With A Clear Goal: Bringing Back Tigers After 70 years of absence, tigers are making a comeback.

Over 37,000 Trees Were Planted Last Year With A Clear Goal: Bringing Back Tigers

NASA Just Announced A Radical Shift In Artemis III Mission Goals, Plus Key Updates On Artemis II The Artemis II rocket was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building this week.

NASA Just Announced A Radical Shift In Artemis III Mission Goals, Plus Key Updates On Artemis II

Oldest Human-Made Geometric Designs Found On 60,000-Year–Old Ostrich Eggshells Prehistoric humans created a 'geometric grammar' using parallel lines and right-angles.

Oldest Human-Made Geometric Designs Found On 60,000-Year–Old Ostrich Eggshells

Study Reveals What Getting High Does To Your Memory We'd tell you the results, but we forgot.

Study Reveals What Getting High Does To Your Memory

Scientists Have Dug A Giant Ice Cave In Antarctica To House Glacier Core Samples Before It's Too Late “We are the last generation who can act.'

Scientists Have Dug A Giant Ice Cave In Antarctica To House Glacier Core Samples Before It's Too Late

The Great Emu War Of 1932: When Men And Birds Battled Over Territory With Beak And Bullet This weird slice of history actually takes on a kind of sense when you look at what brought it about.

The Great Emu War Of 1932: When Men And Birds Battled Over Territory With Beak And Bullet

What The Climate Crisis Is Doing To Young People's Mental Health The kids aren't alright.

What The Climate Crisis Is Doing To Young People's Mental Health

We Could Be Missing A Key Detail About ADHD: New Data Suggests There Are 3 Distinct Types Understanding different subtypes of ADHD could open the door to more personalized support.

We Could Be Missing A Key Detail About ADHD: New Data Suggests There Are 3 Distinct Types

Selenelion: How An Atmospheric Effect Will Create An 'Impossible' View During Tomorrow’s Lunar Eclipse You've got to be ready at dawn tomorrow to see something pretty incredible.

Selenelion: How An Atmospheric Effect Will Create An 'Impossible' View During Tomorrow’s Lunar Eclipse

Why This Will Be The Last Total Lunar Eclipse For Almost 3 Years, But The Next One Will Be Epic Good things are worth waiting for, but it’s still an excellent reason to see this one if you can.

Why This Will Be The Last Total Lunar Eclipse For Almost 3 Years, But The Next One Will Be Epic

'Humanity's Last Exam' Reveals How Accurate AI Actually Is. Chatbots Might Want To Look Away Now. Though all models were overconfident and performed poorly, there are some clear front-runners.

'Humanity's Last Exam' Reveals How Accurate AI Actually Is. Chatbots Might Want To Look Away Now.

'They Are Learning': Cortical Labs Makes 200,000 Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

'They Are Learning': Cortical Labs Makes 200,000 Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM

Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know Why Just like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the apes went wild for a crystal monolith

Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know Why

Antarctica Lost An Area Of Ice Twice The Size Of Delaware In The Last 30 Years Fortunately, most of Antarctica remains stable, but the vulnerable areas are in grave danger.

Antarctica Lost An Area Of Ice Twice The Size Of Delaware In The Last 30 Years

The Average Person Holds Nine 'Moderately Significant' Secrets, And They're Roughly What You'd Expect Worrying about a secret you hold? A new study finds you aren't the only one, and doing so can have consequences for your well-being.

The Average Person Holds Nine 'Moderately Significant' Secrets, And They're Roughly What You'd Expect

Drinking Water Fed By 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Aquifers Deep Beneath The US Could Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease A new study can’t prove causation, but suggests these ancient water sources may be shielded from harmful environmental pollutants that cause disease.

Drinking Water Fed By 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Aquifers Deep Beneath The US Could Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease

Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: 'We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are' New experiments showed how a bacterium could survive being thrown into space by an impact.

Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: 'We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are'

'It Occurred On The Nightside': NASA's MAVEN Orbiter Detects Potential Lightning Strike On Mars Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

'It Occurred On The Nightside': NASA's MAVEN Orbiter Detects Potential Lightning Strike On Mars

This Is The Face Of ‘Little Foot’, The Oldest Hominin From Southern Africa Weirdly, it doesn't look like its relatives from the same region.

This Is The Face Of ‘Little Foot’, The Oldest Hominin From Southern Africa

Measuring The Mass Of A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid During A High-Speed Flyby, According To Astrophysicists While such a mission would be nerve-wracking, it would still be pretty darn cool.

Measuring The Mass Of A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid During A High-Speed Flyby, According To Astrophysicists

“These Kinds Of Systems Are Very Rare”: The Most Compact Known 3+1 Quadruple Star System Has Been Discovered Extreme, but apparently very stable.

“These Kinds Of Systems Are Very Rare”: The Most Compact Known 3+1 Quadruple Star System Has Been Discovered

Scared Of Spiders? Your Eye Movements Reveal You'd Rather Focus On Other Insects 'We found that when people received a paired image of an arachnid versus another arthropod, they strongly prefer looking at the non-spider arthropods.'

Scared Of Spiders? Your Eye Movements Reveal You'd Rather Focus On Other Insects

What's It Like To Take Lanmaoa Asiatica? The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate 'Xiao Ren Ren' One man began searching for them with no luck, until he looked under the tablecloth and found them 'marching and grinning' back at him.

What's It Like To Take Lanmaoa Asiatica? The Mushrooms That Make You Hallucinate 'Xiao Ren Ren'

The World's Longest Non-Stop Bird Migration Covered Over 13,000 Kilometers From Alaska To Tasmania In Just 11 Days Bar-tailed godwit B6 was only 4 months old at the time.

The World's Longest Non-Stop Bird Migration Covered Over 13,000 Kilometers From Alaska To Tasmania In Just 11 Days

Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice Age Sewing may have saved their asses.

Neanderthals' Nifty Tailoring Skills May Have Helped Them Survive The Ice Age