Our current achievement economy may deserve the blame

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Life on Earth wasn’t always mobile

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Turns out getting rid of large swaths of humanity benefits nature

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Genetic modification could make carp more accessible for millions

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Just in case you needed some new nightmare fuel

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Their lithium gave them away

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Pretty tough to be a fish 70 million years ago

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Diminutive wrens go big

The post How a Tiny Bird Might Tell the Tale of Island Giants appeared first on Nautilus.

Over the past two decades, right-wing ideology has become associated with less trust in medicine—and poorer health

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Fossil records reveal Earth’s mass extinctions are followed by a rise of ocean cephalopods. They’re rising again.

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With NASA recently detailing its plans for a lunar settlement, here’s a look at how that concept has taken shape through history

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It’s a literal gut feeling

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How the Greenland shark lives long and prospers

The post The Genetic Secrets of a Shark That Lives for 500 Years appeared first on Nautilus.

Gravitational waves point to a multifaceted assembly line for the cosmic oddities

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Pavlov’s dog, meet Pavlov’s mosquito

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