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Birds spliced onto a cracked photograph of Winfield Scott.

The Fight Over Animal Names Has Reached a New Extreme

Forget changing only the names that honor the horrors of the past. Some biologists now argue no species should ever be named after a single individual.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic
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on May 25, 2023

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic
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on February 11, 2019
Human skull in a museum display case.

The Extremely Fast Peopling of the Americas

Two genetic studies show how the first Native Americans spread through their new continent with incredible speed.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic
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on November 8, 2018

Humans Are Destroying Animals’ Ancestral Knowledge

Bighorn sheep and moose learn to migrate from one another. When they die, that generational know-how is not easily replaced.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic
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on September 6, 2018

Fossilized Human Footprint Found Nestled in a Giant Sloth Footprint

An incredibly preserved set of tracks tell the story of an ancient hunt.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic
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on April 25, 2018

How a Frog Became the First Mainstream Pregnancy Test

In the 1950s, if a woman wanted to know if she was pregnant, she needed to get her urine injected into a frog.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic
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on May 4, 2017
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