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Did Scientists Just Discover the Last Common Ancestor of All Apes?
Alesi, the skull of the new extinct ape species Nyanzapithecus alesi (Image: Fred Spoor) Fossils of ancient apes are even rarer than those of ancient humans, so very little is known about these important evolutionary missing links. The unexpected discovery of a 13 million-year-old infant ape skull in Kenya is offering a tantalizing glimpse of…
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Mammalian Ancestors Went Airborne Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction by April I. Neander/UChicago The origin of flight remains a perplexing topic in the scientific community, as tends to be the case with any origin story. Flight probably evolved multiple times in different groups. Insects probably started flying over 300 million years ago, and pterosaurs, large flying reptiles, evolved 230 million years ago. Add…
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Don’t Get Too Excited About Alien Life on Tau Ceti
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Motorhead’s Lemmy Will Live On as a Vicious Prehistoric Crocodile
Image Courtesy of Mark Witton When much-beloved Motörhead frontman Lemmy left our planet for a more metal one back in 2015, the world mourned. But now, the iconic musician has been immortalized in a way we know he’d approve of—by getting a prehistoric beast named in his honor. Recently, scientists studying the fragmentary skeleton of…
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Thanks to Airbnb, You Can Fuck in Trump’s Childhood Home for $725 a Night
Any Trump-loving red-blooded American dumbass looking to huff in a bit of the president’s residual success while sneering at New York liberals will be disappointed to realize Jamaica Estates is… basically Long Island. And shitposting may be difficult as the listing does not make clear if the home is equipped with wifi. Really, all you…
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FaceApp Launches Digital Blackface Options Because the World Is Filled With Idiots [Updated]
Image: Gizmodo This really isn’t that hard, people. Just last year, Snapchat apologized for adding an offensive Bob Marley selfie filter to its stable. Now, FaceApp—the silly photo editor you probably downloaded in March and totally forgot about—has outdone Snapchat by throwing in options for people to virtually switch between multiple races. No. Don’t do…
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StarCraft Could Be the Next Game AI Destroys Us At
Image: Mike Prosser/Flickr/Screenshot My experience with StarCraft was probably the stupidest possible: I really liked the books. Sure, I played the games, but mostly I played single-player because I was not very good, and enjoyed the story. But for some reason, it was Sarah Kerrigan’s tale told through the novelization that resonated with me the…
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A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated
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What the Heck Is Going on With the HBO Game of Thrones Hack?
Image: HBO Episode 5 of the penultimate season of Game of Thrones will air on Sunday. As with episode 4, an outline of the script has been circulating online in what seems to be the latest leak from the huge HBO hack. And suddenly, it seems like the “cyber incident” that some people—including this blogger—thought…
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N Korea: 3.5 million soldiers are ready
Pyongyang – North Korea carries out the pressure even more by making known that 3.5 million workers, party members and soldiers have been reported as a volunteer to serve in the army. Reports that the staatskrant Rodong Sinmun today. “All our citizens are ready to take revenge against the U.S., and that many thousands of…