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Mummified Dino Yields Skin Molecules

The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a “dinosaur mummy,” have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules, according to a new study. While research on other dinosaurs has led to the identification of organic material linked to bones, co-author Roy Wogelius told Discovery News that “this is the first dinosaur to reveal intact skin structure and associated organic molecules.”

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Swine Flu: Just the Latest Chapter in a 91-Year Pandemic Era

The current strain of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, has people scared because it’s a novel virus that most of the population has never been exposed to. But as a group, H1N1 viruses aren’t new. They’ve been circulating since 1918, when a new strain appeared simultaneously in pigs and humans and killed 40 to 50 million people in a single year

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New Household Cleaners Reduces Packaging

A new line of household cleaners by Bumgartens will be sold in tablet form, requiring 75 percent less packaging and reducing the impact of shipping because the products have 85 percent less “water weight.”

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Great Lakes wolves returning to endangered list

The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region back on the endangered species list — at least temporarily.

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