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The Skeptics Guide #942 - Jul 29 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Homologous Traits of Honeybee and Paper Wasp Nests

This is the longest that they've been able to reanimate something by like an order of magnitude, right? They went from thousands of years to 46,000 years. It's actually belongs to a new species, you know, that they hadn't identified before. The honeycomb design of honeybee and paper wasp nests derives from a common ancestor. New research finds that despite diverging evolutionarily, 179 million years ago, the honeyBee and Paper Wasp nest were related.

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