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A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...

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A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.