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Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

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Most of the year, less than 10% of the river’s sediment reaches the critical Bird’s Foot Delta, according to scientists.

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

A recent observation by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) at the Russian Academy of ...

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Where does water go when it rains? The answer: It depends. Exactly how rainfall gets partitioned among evaporation, infiltration into soils and aquifers and discharge into streams depends on the ...