Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested.
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Butterflies Are in Decline. New Research Points to Insecticides.
Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss.
Eyeglasses Improve Income as Well as Sight, Study Shows
A study found that when farsighted workers in Bangladesh were given free reading glasses, they earned 33 percent more than those who had not.
Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too
Anthropologists are finding that women in modern foraging societies have played a major role in catching game.
Fossils Seized in Police Raid Demystify a Prehistoric Flying Reptile
Among the 3,000 fossils seized at a Brazilian port in 2013 was an almost complete skeleton from the pterosaur species Tupandactylus navigans, preserved in six limestone slabs.
Trilobites: Massacre of Children in Peru Might Have Been a Sacrifice to Stop Bad Weather
Nearly 140 child skeletons were revealed at the site last year. And now researchers say it may have been a response to an El Niño event.