Science News

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• Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

• Earth's magnetic north pole is hurtling toward Russia

  The north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast that it could be a problem for smartphone maps and navigation systems.

• Land Ho! Visiting a Young Island

  report of first landing on a volcanic island formed in January 2015

• Bird beaks did not adapt to food types as previously thought

  the connection between beak shapes and feeding ecology in birds is found much weaker and more complex than expected

• Bizarre deep-sea fish living in Gulf of California with 'virtually no oxygen' puzzles biologists