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Cuckoo wasps that lived alongside dinosaurs were metallic green just like they are today

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Even after 99 million years, turns out some things never change.  Cuckoo wasps were shades of metallic green 99 million years ago just like they are today, a study of extraordinarily-preserved insects trapped in amber has revealed. The specimens from Myanmar — which also included beetles, ants and a soldier fly — largely retained the colours … Read more

Laughing gas given off by large quantities of penguin poo made researchers go ‘cuckoo’ in Antarctica

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King penguins are the second largest of the penguin species, after the Emperor penguin. They weigh, on average they, around 15kg (33lb) and are 95cm (3.1ft) tall. Like many penguins, fully grown but unfledged chicks can appear to be larger than the adult birds.  They were sometimes known as ‘woolly penguins’ by the early explorers … Read more