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In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

Scientists previously assumed the giant, prehistoric sharks mostly feasted on whales, but it turns out they probably weren’t ...

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The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

At the top of a 120-foot-high cliff in Tonga sits a humongous rock—and at more than 650 feet inland, it’s staggeringly out of ...

More than three-quarters of the world's glaciers are set to vanish if climate change continues unchecked, a major new study ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

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Higher global temperatures mean the intertropical convergence zone could shift south — throwing off precipitation trends for ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.