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Whale filmed giving birth, with a little help from her friends

Whale filmed giving birth, with a little help from her friends

Scientists have managed to film a spectacular event rarely witnessed by humans: a sperm whale giving birth while other females worked together to support the mother and her newborn. A team from Project CETI, an international effort seeking to understand how whales communicate, were in a boat near a pod

600-year-old pinot noir grape found in medieval French toilet

600-year-old pinot noir grape found in medieval French toilet

A 600-year-old grape seed discovered in the toilets of a medieval French hospital is genetically identical to the grapes still being used to make pinot noir wine, scientists said Tuesday. The seed reveals that people in France have been cultivating this immensely popular variety of grape since at

The platypus is even weirder than thought, scientists discover

The platypus is even weirder than thought, scientists discover

They already have the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes. Yet the humble platypus, a small creature which quietly swims in the rivers of eastern Australia, has found yet another way to amaze scientists. It is the only

Ingredients of life discovered in Ryugu asteroid samples

Ingredients of life discovered in Ryugu asteroid samples

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, scientists said Monday. The discovery comes after these building blocks of life were detected on another asteroid called Bennu, suggesting they are abundant throughout the Solar