Researchers at the University of New Mexico have discovered that a common, prehistoric plant distills water to such an ...

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Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...

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Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...