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Living Fossils – Extinct or Extant?

Does serendipity exist? Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a tiny museum in East London, South Africa, when she received a phone call from a local dockman. It was Christmas eve in 1938, and Marjorie was asked to inspect the latest catch of Captain Hendrik Goosen.   As it turned out, it would be a

Death, Dinosaurs, and Dark Matter, Oh My!

Everyone knows about the extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, the result of a mountain-sized space object colliding with Earth and wreaking havoc all over the planet. However, what most people don't know is that this extinction was not the most devastating in Earth's history. The dinosaur extinction is one of the

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