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Will Smith ventured into a remote cave collect and study venom from giant tarantulas for his National Geographic show, ...

For instance, researchers use the backyard sightings that users submit to Project FeederWatch —a joint program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada —to track long-term changes in ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

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The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

FILE: Dave Rempel, 28, a biologist with the Institute for Wildlife Studies, carries a juvenile bald eagle in a kennel to a ...