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Scorpion venom acts as a pain killer in grasshopper mice

Scorpion venom acts as a pain killer in grasshopper mice

Southern grasshopper mice may weigh only a couple ounces, but they have the ability to ward off the deadly sting of bark scorpions. A...
Solving Sudoku puzzles can cause seizures

Solving Sudoku puzzles can cause seizures

The first known case of seizures that were related to solving Sudoku puzzles was reported in the edition of the journal JAMA Neurology....
Australian rock shows oldest possible life on Earth

Australian rock shows oldest possible life on Earth

A single zircon out of 10,000 found in Jack Hills in Western Australia contains carbon containing compounds that are at least 4.1 billion years...
Dinosaur flatuence may have warmed the Mesozoic climate

Dinosaur flatuence may have warmed the Mesozoic climate

Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University, Graeme Ruxton from the University of St. Andrews, and methane expert Euan Nisbet at the University of...
Conservation and rain forest logging can coexist

Conservation and rain forest logging can coexist

Jack Putz, University of Florida professor of biology, led a team of scientists in defining and devising a practical means of preserving tropical forests...
Australia teemed with meat eating dinosaurs

Australia teemed with meat eating dinosaurs

New research reported by scientists from the University of Cambridge (UK), University College London, and Monash University in Melbourne Australia in the open access...
Largest prehistoric turtle ever found

Largest prehistoric turtle ever found

Edwin Cadena, a doctoral student at North Carolina State University, is credited with discovering the largest prehistoric fossil turtle ever found in a paper...
Human spine structure found in 345 million year old eel

Human spine structure found in 345 million year old eel

Lauren Sallan, a graduate student in the Program in Integrative Biology at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, described a new interpretation of...
New yellow rain frog species from Panama revealed

New yellow rain frog species from Panama revealed

Andreas Hertz and his colleagues, reptile and amphibian specialists at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main Germany, reported the discovery of a...
Chechen dinosaur eggs proven to be rocks

Chechen dinosaur eggs proven to be rocks

The purported discovery of the first known cache of dinosaur eggs in the North Caucasus Chechen Republic reported on April 13, 2012, has been...

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