Stories tagged by 'ned gilmore'

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…fruit bat?

November 20, 2011

How can a specimen collected 150 years ago provide new scientific knowledge today?
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Mummy Mystery

October 31, 2011

Why would a 2,200-year-old mummy need a CAT scan?
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