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A bird's-eye-view of South America's Yucatán Peninsula has revealed a massive 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize's largest ...

Radar surveys occasionally show evidence of the base, lurking there like an environmental time bomb under the ice. But in ...

Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was ...

A deposit of high-quality gold ore containing around 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of the precious metal has been ...

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Ancient footprints reveal that a thriving landscape 1.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya was able to accommodate two ...

NASA created this 8-hour-long looping video from the November 2022 launch of Artemis 1 to the Moon. The holiday video is a ...

Drinking raw milk is a dangerous choice made all the more risky by the recent outbreak of bird flu in the United States.

There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It's called kyawthuite ( ...

Really, the only metals judged to be worthy of returning to Earth are the platinum-group metals (PGMs), which are known for ...

When they're wearing salmon hats and terrorizing yachts, it's easy, perhaps, to forget that orcas are the most fearsome large ...