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Scientists find a place on Earth where there is no life

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Living beings, especially microorganisms, have a surprising ability to adapt to the most extreme environments on our planet, but there are still places where they cannot live.
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Only eat oysters in months with an ‘r’? Rule of thumb is at least 4,000 years old

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Foodie tradition dictates only eating wild oysters in months with the letter "r" - from September to April - to avoid watery shellfish, or worse, a nasty bout of food poisoning.
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Alongside Ötzi the Iceman: a bounty of ancient mosses and liverworts

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Buried alongside the famous Ötzi the Iceman are at least 75 species of bryophytes - mosses and liverworts - which hold clues to Ötzi's surroundings, according to a study by James Dickson of the University of Glasgow, UK and colleagues at the University of Innsbruck.
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The last mammoths died on a remote island

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The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; they died out 4,000 years ago within a very short time.
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Ancient pigs endured a complete genomic turnover after they arrived in Europe

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New research led by Oxford University and Queen Mary University of London has resolved a pig paradox.
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When the dinosaurs died, lichens thrived

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When an asteroid smacked into the Earth 66 million years ago, it triggered mass extinctions all over the planet.
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The evolution of puppy dog eyes

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Dogs have evolved new muscles around the eyes to better communicate with humans.
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Fossil teeth reveal ancient hyenas in the Arctic

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Modern hyenas are known as hunters and scavengers in Asian and African ecosystems such as the savanna.
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Lynx in Turkey: Non-invasive sample collection provides insights into genetic diversity and behaviour

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Little is known about the biology and the genetic status of the Caucasian Lynx (Lynx lynx dinniki), a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx distributed across portions of Turkey, the Caucasus region and Iran.
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