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Some fossils are truly exceptional, showing biological details of organisms from the past. Here we present a few.

The planet Mars presents quite hostile conditions, but it has places as emblematic as Valles Marineris.

It's called Kepler-16b and it's a rare exoplanet that orbits around two stars, like the fictional planet from the Star Wars universe.

Our planet formed about 6 billion years ago. That sphere of incandescent lava today harbors life, but in the distant future it will return to its origins.

With the appearance of an insect, like a slimy mass, with an exoskeleton, a dwarf with a big head without hair, similar to us but with pointed ears... science fiction and movies have painted us aliens in very different shapes and sizes.

Since the first discovery of Neanderthal fossils in 1856, we have come to know them in depth.

The origin of this myth is in an English doctor of the eighteenth century. Even if he was wrong, there are other structures visible from space.

We mammals detect pain thanks to specific receptors called nociceptors; how do insects do it?