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Did you know that the Y chromosome might disappear sometime in the next five to ten million years?
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Deep in the coal mines of La Guajira, Colombia, students unearthed a skeleton of epic proportions. The gigantic fossils were initially thought to belong to a crocodilian. They were wrong. The fossils were the remnants of a snake—the largest snake to ever inhabit this earth: titanoboa. Estimated to be 42 to 43 feet long, the
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