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New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...

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Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

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In whatever corner of hell where he now resides, old Joe Stalin must be smiling at the alacrity with which Donald Trump’s ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

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For example, Ms Wu and collaborators argue that our knowledge of birdsong is strongly biased: it is based on northern ...

(AP Photo/John Locher, File) 1 of 2 An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric ... Meanwhile, environmentalists ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece ...