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Microbes under Greenland Ice may be preview of what scientists find under Mars' surface

...g Archaea) could just as easily be detected around meteor craters where rock has been thrown up from deep underground. "Detecting this concentration of microbes is within the ability of state-of-the-art instruments, if they could be flown to Mars and if the lander could drop down at a place where Mars orbi...

Expert dispels bird flu paranoia

..."You're more likely to have a light plane hit by a meteor and fall on your head than somebody getting bird flu off their cockatiel." Dr Doneley, Queensland's only registered bird specialist, said he wanted to clear up some of the confusion and unnecessary panic about the virus. He said bird flu was a vi...

Far more than a meteor killed dinos

...poraries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Per...

'Fruit fly dating game' provides clues to our reproductive prowess

...poraries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Per...

Dinosaur extinction didn't cause the rise of present-day mammals, claim researchers

...day existed 85 million years ago, and survived the meteor impact that is thought to have killed the dinosaurs. However, throughout the Cretaceous epoch, when dinosaurs walked the earth, these mammal species were relatively few in number, and were prevented from diversifying and evolving in ecosystems domina...

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