A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

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Venezuela’s promised release of political prisoners stalls as a power struggle erupts between Delcy Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello after Maduro’s capture.

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The family chimp turns rabid, but always seems like a real animal, in Johannes Roberts' slickly executed piece of ...

Dr Ben Rein proves that the brain is the only organ that gets lonely and goes on to show that we need friends to not only be ...

Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

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The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...