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Evolution:

A gibbon is your 1 millionth cousin, 400,000 times removed

Category: General

Over at Evolutionary Genealogy, Leonard Eisenberg has been thinking about how we're related to other animals. Not so much in the evolutionary sense, but in the familial sense. After all, if your cousin is simply the offspring of your parent's...

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Isolated for millions of years, the microbes behind Antarctica's "Blood Falls"

Category: Evolution

Scientists have discovered new species of iron-breathing microbes that have lived isolated under an Antarctic glacier for millions of years. The microbes are responsible for the landmark blood-red frozen waterfall at Taylor Glacier. Researchers theorise that the microbes were trapped...

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