New Zealand Science News API

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            "title": "Newly discovered jawed fish rewrites the path of tooth evolution",
            "description": "A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of vertebrate teeth.",
            "content": "A newly described fossil fish species, Romundina gagnieri, has revealed teeth growing on bony plates that line the roof of its mouth. This extends the acquisition of teeth in jawed fishes to a far earlier stage in vertebrate evolution.\nThat architect... [5390 chars]",
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            "title": "Black hole continues to belch years after chewing up star",
            "description": "Primarily using radio telescopes in New Mexico and South Africa, scientists are watching the black hole, as it continues to belch out a fast-moving jet of material.",
            "content": "By Will Dunham, Reuters\nBlack hole is located 665 million light years from Earth\nA jet of material is shooting into space from black hole\nOne of the most powerful single cosmic events ever seen\nScientists are observing the behaviour of a supermassive... [3492 chars]",
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            "title": "New analysis suggests puzzling fossil may have been an unknown lifeform",
            "description": "Long before dinosaurs or trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith.",
            "content": "By Katie Hunt, CNN\nSome 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith.\nNow, new research makes the case that the ancient life form was not a plant,... [4907 chars]",
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