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The Incredible Eye of the Fly

December 9, 2012 at 12:07 am

Undoubtedly you’ve had a fly buzzing around your room pestering you. At least once in your life you’ve picked up a newspaper or fly swatter and tried to get rid of it. But it seems like every time you swing the little fly avoids your attempts. Flies aren’t as dumb as they seem. Evolution has taught […]

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Scrawny Dino Couldn’t Have Lifted itself From the Ground

November 21, 2012 at 2:57 am

As children, we all visited history museums and gazed up at the ancient bones of a dinosaur rearing towards the sky, fighting off some other ferocious winged being. But was that ferocious winged being, when it was alive, just a bunch of bones too? According to new findings, the pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, might not have been able […]

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