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New Evidence Emerges in Mystery of When Mammals Became Warm-Blooded
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Evolution: A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water
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Enceladus’s oceans may be the right saltiness to sustain life
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U.K. Shatters Heat Record Three Times in a Matter of Hours
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