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Mother of a suicide victim, Christopher Todd Erick, claimed that she saw her son's remains displayed in a Las Vegas museum, ...

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Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have revealed fossilized duck-billed dinosaur specimens from Wyoming that were carefully prepared in the Fossil Lab. These fossils preserve soft tissue and ...

About 360 million years ago, the shallow sea above present-day Cleveland was home to a fearsome apex predator: Dunkleosteus terrelli. This 14-foot armored fish ruled the Late Devonian seas with ...

A 500-year-old mystery hidden in one of the world’s most iconic drawings may have just been cracked—by a London dentist. A ...

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