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In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...
While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...
Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...
Schulz to a collection of William Faulkner short stories, or a 1974 hardcover copy of Fahrenheit 451, a Stephen King first edition or vintage Life magazines that date back to the 1930s.
A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ... The debate over whether the wolves are a carbon copy of their extinct forerunners misses the point, Shapiro said, adding that the team had ...
Katy Perry offered up a unique tour of the Blue Origin capsule before she began her historic journey into space. The singer, 40, was one of six passengers on board the all-female space mission ...
Researchers have discovered two new species in a 125-million-year-old fossil in China. While they’d be wiped out by a T-Rex card, they’d still get a good killer rating if you were a rodent or ...
This week, scientists famous for creating ‘woolly mice’ claimed to have performed another genetic feat and de-extincted a giant wolf species from 10,000 years ago. Genetic engineering company Colossal ...
One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat ...
THAT selection in relation to sex has been an important factor in the formation of the present breeds of animals was more than indicated in the “Origin of Species,“and the theory has since ...
It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...