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Vaquita, The World’s Smallest Porpoise, Is On The Verge Of Extinction

Only 30 vaquita porpoises remain and there's no sure way to save them.

By Savannah Cox • Feb 28, 2017

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Vaquita, The World’s Smallest Porpoise, Is On The Verge Of Extinction

Only 30 vaquita porpoises remain and there's no sure way to save them.

By Savannah Cox • February 28, 2017

Siberia’s “Doorway To The Underworld” Is Growing And You Won’t Like Why

As the Batagaika crater grows larger, it will continue to unearth ancient forests that will have disastrous effects.

By All That's Interesting • Feb 27, 2017

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Siberia’s “Doorway To The Underworld” Is Growing And You Won’t Like Why

As the Batagaika crater grows larger, it will continue to unearth ancient forests that will have disastrous effects.

By All That's Interesting • February 27, 2017

NASA Announces Discovery Of 7 Earth-Like Planets In A Nearby Star’s Habitable Zone

These habitable-zone planets could very well have oceans of liquid water on their surfaces and support life.

By All That's Interesting • Feb 22, 2017

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NASA Announces Discovery Of 7 Earth-Like Planets In A Nearby Star’s Habitable Zone

These habitable-zone planets could very well have oceans of liquid water on their surfaces and support life.

By All That's Interesting • February 22, 2017

NASA Scientists Discover Mysterious Life Forms Hibernating Inside Giant Mexican Cave Crystals

This discovery hints at the potential of finding extraterrestrial life in places just as inhospitable to life as these caves.

By All That's Interesting • Feb 20, 2017

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NASA Scientists Discover Mysterious Life Forms Hibernating Inside Giant Mexican Cave Crystals

This discovery hints at the potential of finding extraterrestrial life in places just as inhospitable to life as these caves.

By All That's Interesting • February 20, 2017

Harvard Scientists Plan To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth By 2019

Via DNA splicing, mammoths may be coming back — and helping to fight climate change — very soon.

By All That's Interesting • Feb 17, 2017

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Harvard Scientists Plan To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth By 2019

Via DNA splicing, mammoths may be coming back — and helping to fight climate change — very soon.

By All That's Interesting • February 17, 2017

New Discovery Shows Humans’ Earliest Ancestor Was A Tiny, Anus-Less Mouth

The fossil is about 540 million years old.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 31, 2017

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New Discovery Shows Humans’ Earliest Ancestor Was A Tiny, Anus-Less Mouth

The fossil is about 540 million years old.

By All That's Interesting • January 31, 2017

Scientists Create Human-Animal Hybrid In Laboratory, Hope Breakthrough Will Save Lives

Scientists hope that this will advance the fight to save lives by creating lab-grown organs.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 27, 2017

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Scientists Create Human-Animal Hybrid In Laboratory, Hope Breakthrough Will Save Lives

Scientists hope that this will advance the fight to save lives by creating lab-grown organs.

By All That's Interesting • January 27, 2017

Brand New Organ Discovered In Human Body By Irish Medical Researchers

Now called the mesentery, medical researchers overlooked this organ for centuries.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 4, 2017

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Brand New Organ Discovered In Human Body By Irish Medical Researchers

Now called the mesentery, medical researchers overlooked this organ for centuries.

By All That's Interesting • January 4, 2017

Scientists Identify Mysterious Sound Emanating From Marianas Trench

Scientists recently found a strange sound emanating from the deepest part of the ocean, and a new study claims to have identified its source. A drone picked up the eerie 3.5-second-long noise deep in the Pacific Ocean’s Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (whose lowest points sit nearly seven miles below...

By All That's Interesting • Dec 19, 2016

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Scientists Identify Mysterious Sound Emanating From Marianas Trench

Scientists recently found a strange sound emanating from the deepest part of the ocean, and a new study claims to have identified its source. A drone picked up the eerie 3.5-second-long noise deep in the Pacific Ocean’s Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (whose lowest points sit nearly seven miles below...

By All That's Interesting • December 19, 2016

Unearthed Mummy Child Upends Scientists’ Beliefs About Smallpox

Smallpox has had a devastating history, from ancient Egypt to its worldwide eradication about 35 years ago, but a mummified child recently found in a Lithuanian crypt is rewriting the virus’ storied past. Teeming with the remains of the virus, the mummified child had been between the ages of two...

By All That's Interesting • Dec 13, 2016

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Unearthed Mummy Child Upends Scientists’ Beliefs About Smallpox

Smallpox has had a devastating history, from ancient Egypt to its worldwide eradication about 35 years ago, but a mummified child recently found in a Lithuanian crypt is rewriting the virus’ storied past. Teeming with the remains of the virus, the mummified child had been between the ages of two...

By All That's Interesting • December 13, 2016