Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

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While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.