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Finding Dinosaur Color In Fossilized Feathers Scientists analyzed melanin in fossil feathers to reconstruct the colors of a 150-million-year-old dinosaur. Forget those drab grays and greens, this dinosaur was flashy.

Bots Take On The Bard Robots were cast in an ultra-modern interpretation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Kevin Pratt, of Texas A and M University, explains the research angle of putting search and rescue robots on the stage.

The Mystery Of The Celibate Rotifer Bdelloid rotifers haven’t had sex for at least thirty million years and that’s puzzling. Most asexual animals are doomed to extinction. Two biologists explain the extraordinary adaptations that allow rotifers to survive without sex.

High Schoolers DNA Test A Hot Dog Brenda Tan and Matthew Cost, high school seniors from Trinity School in New York City, used a technique called DNA barcoding to find out what species were present in over 200 animal products. Their results suggest buyers should beware!