Dr. Dirk Knaust, a geologist with the Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA, has identified plesiosaur regurgitalites -- the technical term for fossilized vomit -- from preserved in rock cores drilled beneath the North Sea, offering a rare window into how these long-necked marine reptiles fed in the Middle and Late Jurassic seas.

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Named Elias 2-24b, the newly confirmed exoplanet is estimated to be less than 1 million years old -- so young it is likely still gaining mass from the protoplanetary disk surrounding its star.

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Microbiologists have discovered a new species of heat-loving amoeba that divides at 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit) and remains motile up to 64 degrees Celsius (147 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Paleontologists working in Patagonia, Argentina, have uncovered fossilized eggshells that push the known range of dinosaur nesting deeper into the southern hemisphere than previously documented.

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Using data collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover, planetary scientists have revealed that a geologically puzzling formation in Jezero crater experienced multiple distinct episodes of water-related alteration.

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Named ‘hypersoft X-ray sources,’ these objects give off very low-energy X-rays that are difficult to detect.

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Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of therizinosaur based on a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern China.

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Entomologists have described two previously unrecognized species of Anchiale -- a genus of large, winged stick insects -- from tropical Queensland, and restored a third to full species status.

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Roughly 18,000 years ago, in what is now northern Ukraine, artists carved small female figurines from mammoth ivory and covered them with zigzags and meanders.

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A barred spiral galaxy called NGC 4698 has a bizarre structure in which its central stars and gas rotate perpendicular to the galaxy’s main disk, possibly because it acquired material from outside.

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Stanford University neuroscientist Kyle Loh and colleagues challenge this view, arguing that the human brain is two distinct nervous systems that evolved separately and were joined together over hundreds of millions of years.

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A new analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex teeth indicates the ancient predator maintained a body temperature of about 36.3 degrees Celsius (97.3 degrees Fahrenheit), close to that of Indian and African elephants and far warmer than its cold-blooded reptile neighbors.

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Using images from the LROC instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have discovered the biggest newly formed impact crater ever discovered in the Solar System.

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Scientists have demonstrated that the South American tiger cat complex Leopardus tigrinus consists of five genetically distinct species, including one entirely new to science.

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A previously unrecognized species of the fruit-eating pigeon genus Ducula inhabits the remote island of Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines’ Sulu Archipelago, according to Delaware Museum of Nature & Science’s Dr. Matthew Halley.

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New research led by University of the Witwatersrand and University of Southern California paleoanthropologists sheds more light on one of the most debated transitions in human evolution: when our ancestors stopped regularly climbing trees and committed fully to walking on two legs.

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Although the famous Carrington Event of 1859 is often described as the first major space weather event to affect technology, earlier incidents did occur. Historical records show that telegraph systems were disrupted by geomagnetic storms as early as the late 1840s.

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Paleontologists have described a previously unknown species of mosasaur -- a group of extinct marine reptiles that patrolled Cretaceous seas alongside dinosaurs on land -- based on fossils unearthed in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.

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Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found evidence of the Higgs boson decaying into a ‘virtual’ photon and a real photon, which in turn produces a pair of leptons.

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Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have observed the densest, most crowded regions at the centers of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, our Milky Way Galaxy’s closest dwarf companions, offering an unprecedented look at areas that have long resisted detailed study.

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