Hubble has a problem. NASA says that one of the cameras on the almost 30-year-old space telescope – the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) – is no longer operational because of a hardware problem.
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Millions of years before the Galapagos Islands existed, there was another archipelago in the same stretch of water off the west coast of South America. And it seems those long-vanished lands probably shaped the evolution of some of the unusual Galapagos wildlife that later inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Image: A Camera Story
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Was it a fight to the death? Little Foot, an ancient hominin who lived in what is now South Africa 3.67 million years ago, may have died in a battle for food with a large male baboon-like monkey after falling down a hole. Image: Karmor
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Dinosaurs were southerners. The famous group dominated the world for tens of millions of years and left behind fossils on every major landmass, which has led to some confusion over where the very first dinosaurs were born. Two new studies add to evidence that the earliest dinosaurs lived in South America. Image: MikeAncient
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After a tortuous 20-year-long excavation, a mysterious ancient skeleton is starting to give up its secrets about human evolution. Image: Mac_ZA
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