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Researchers conducted experiments with 116 snakes, including adults, juveniles, and newborns, housed individually under ...

National Park Service researchers have identified a previously unknown shark species in the limestone walls of Mammoth Cave, ...

The earthquake in Kamchatka is the largest worldwide since 2011. Its location has been very seismically active in recent months.

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Pulaosaurus lived in the thick forests of what is now northeastern China, part of a fossil-rich region called the Yanliao ...

For the first time, physicists at CERN have coaxed an antiproton — a mirror twin of the matter that makes up our world — into ...

When this trio mixed together and added to a background “model” armpit odor, men judged the result as more pleasant and more ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...