Australia Science News API

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            "title": "Life on ancient Earth used a rare metal that barely existed",
            "description": "Ancient microbes used rare metals billions of years before oxygen made them abundant on Earth, overturning theories about early life.",
            "content": "Most thinking about early life rests on a practical premise: cells build with what’s around. If a nutrient was scarce on the ancient Earth, the reasonable bet is that biology waited until it wasn’t.\nA new study puts a large dent in that premise. Anci... [5645 chars]",
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            "title": "Dinosaur Teeth Show Bird-Like Parental Care Bonds",
            "description": "Baby dinosaurs were likely fed more nutritious food than their adult counterparts, a finding that could offer insights into their social evolution",
            "content": "Baby dinosaurs were likely fed more nutritious food than their adult counterparts, a finding that could offer insights into their social evolution, suggests a new study.\nPaleontologists uncovered this finding by studying wear on the fossilized teeth ... [3838 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/dinosaur-teeth-show-bird-like-parental-care-1670239/",
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            "title": "Why Don’t Humans Hibernate? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains",
            "description": "You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific survival mechanism?",
            "content": "Deep inside a limestone cave in northern Spain, researchers made a discovery that upended what we thought we knew about our own ancestors. The bones — 430,000 years old, pulled from a shaft called Sima de los Huesos, or “the pit of bones” — were ridd... [6000 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2026/05/08/why-dont-humans-hibernate-an-evolutionary-biologist-explains/",
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