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In a stunning scientific breakthrough, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a living fossil in one of California’s untouched mountain lakes—a microscopic, ...

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On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

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