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sciencealert.com > mysterious-viper-with-a-spider-for-a-tail-reveals-another-bizarre-surprise

Mysterious Viper With a 'Spider' For a Tail Reveals Another Surprise

3+ day, 43+ min ago   (531+ words) A number of creatures on Earth possess a sting in their tails – but there's only one animal known to science with a spider for a tail....

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Bizarre Fossil Turns Out to Be a 24-Legged Insect Science Somehow Missed

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (254+ words) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat....

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sciencealert.com > ancient-dna-reveals-the-american-cheetah-wasnt-a-cheetah-at-all

Ancient DNA Reveals The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah at All

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...

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This Giant Crocodile Relative Weighed as Much as a Car And Preyed on Rhino-Sized Mammals

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (560+ words) Crocodiles are among today's most feared predators, but their ancient relatives make today's crocs seem as threatening as a cuddle-prone kitty with a cold. It took a while, though: Since crocodyliforms arose more than 200 million years ago, they've gone through…...

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