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A new dinosaur species, Haolong dongi, discovered in China has 125-million-year-old preserved skin with unique hollow spikes, a feature never seen before in dinosaurs.
MIT researchers found evidence that some microbes evolved to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before it became abundant in Earth's atmosphere, potentially delaying the Great Oxidation Event.
Michael Pollan's book explores consciousness and how psychedelics reveal it as a brain construct, suggesting the future of intelligence may be understood through its evolution.
Scientists found "proto-point" centromeres in yeast, showing how compact, genetic centromeres evolved from ancestral, repeat-rich ones. They originated from retrotransposons, linking selfish DNA to essential chromosome function.