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Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

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While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

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A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island.

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