If You Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, Can You Still Call It a Woolly Mammoth?
Turns out, de-extinction raises many, many complicated questions
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Turns out, de-extinction raises many, many complicated questions
Science needs more kitties.
A team of scientists has invented a clever way to determine the various qualities of whiskey.
If you dupe these feathered fiends, they'll remember.
The highly corroded copper mask was discovered back in 2005 in La Quebrada in the Cajón Valley.
The element’s origin story is as mysterious as its name
A team of Australian scientists think that you should be able to see the split and continuing shifts written into the history of how animals have evolved. So that’s what the researchers went looking for.
When and how do foetuses start taking part in the human experience?
If you need to get your bearings, the squished brain looking stuff is a squished brain.
Were T. rex scaly scalawags or feathery friends? Honestly, it’s still hard to say.
Possibly two times greater than what experts previously thought.
Unbeknownst to them Syrian refugees left a trail of digital breadcrumbs behind them that would eventually be used to recreate their journey in startling detail.
There are two time-honoured truths about wine: all of it is good—even at its worst—and, when it comes to appreciating wine, nobody knows what the fuck they’re talking about.
Of course not, why should we? What a ridiculous question.
Scientists found the specimen in Myanmar, where others have purchased or found plenty of other incredible amber samples in the amber mines.