Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

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There were many improbable things in Jurassic Park, but perhaps the hardest to believe was a billionaire helping paleontology ...

M ore than 10,000 years ago, a group of Indigenous Americans with close genetic ties to the mysterious Clovis people buried a ...

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In March of that year, the US Border Patrol had placed a roadblock on the only route into the Florida Keys, stopping the cars ...

An executive order means that US fishers can now operate in certain parts of the 1,282,534 square-kilometer region.

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In the process, the team think they can identify the characteristics of the ancestral rose, from which all modern roses ...

The researchers stress that chimps are unlikely to get “ drunk ” on the fruit – being intoxicated in the jungle would definitely not bode well for survival. However, there's a possibility they might ...

“Elephants have the ability to feel sound through their feet,” explains Mindy Albright, curator of mammals at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. “But we can’t say for sure that they knew the earthquake ...