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Japanese macaques in Texas changed their behavior after witnessing a deadly disease outbreak, avoiding contaminated food even without understanding how illness spreads. The discovery reveals how deeply rooted our instinct to avoid germs really is.
Scientists discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a tiny bird-like dinosaur in Argentina that fills a decades-long gap in understanding how these mysterious creatures evolved. The "missing link" fossil proves these dinosaurs were tiny long before they developed their famous stubby arms and ant-eating adaptations.