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Exposure to early stress can protect damselflies from later threats, international study shows
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Invasive hogweed boosts honeybee numbers but threatens wild pollinators, Polish study warns
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Polish researchers co-author forensic tool that reads age from DNA
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Polish scientists discover how fish took over the oceans
Fish began to dominate the world’s oceans in the Early Cretaceous, replacing cephalopods that had ruled the Jurassic seas, according to new research by palaeontologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and their collaborators.
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Kraków scientists find ‘plaster cast fossil’ kept at university for over 100 years is genuine 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur
A 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur specimen, long thought to be a plaster cast, has been confirmed as a genuine fossil by palaeontologists from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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Polish researchers co-develop AI-driven robotic platform that maps chemical reactions in record time
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Scientists at the University of Warsaw have discovered flatworms that spontaneously develop a second, fully formed head where a tail should have been, a phenomenon previously unknown in the animal kingdom. Despite the anomaly, the two-headed worms were able to feed and move, though movement was clumsy, researchers said.
