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What is ‘de-extinction’ really for?
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build.
60% of medieval knight tales lost to time
New research suggests that an enormous amount of chivalric manuscripts disappeared.
3 myths about cursive handwriting
It’s not faster, and it’s not legally required for signatures.
Snake hunters gather in Florida to kill invasive pythons for $25,000 in prizes
The 10-day competition aims to remove as many predators as possible from the Everglades.
Deep sea submersibles snap first photos of ship where Ernest Shackleton died
One of the remotely operated vehicles also discovered the Titanic 40 years ago.
Three tiger cubs born in Kansas
Keepers realized the Bengal tiger was pregnant shortly before she gave birth.
World’s first right-hander could be this 550 million-year-old worm
The new findings suggest preference towards the right in animals may date back much, much further than once though.
In groundbreaking first, humanoid robots performed surgery
Don’t worry; humans helped remotely.
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