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For the first time, hydrophones have recorded the sounds of two porpoises before, during, and after a fatal bycatch event.

Neanderthals had more robust heel bones than we do, and while genetics probably accounted for much of this difference, modern ...

It has people in 2026 watching Friends and buying CDs, but it’s a feeling humans have been having – and even needing – for as ...

Researchers have long been baffled by the existence of blobs of moss that appear in vast numbers around glaciers. The ...

Remove an arm – or any limb, for that matter – and there’s a very good chance you’ll bleed to death unless you can find help.

His name is Congo, and he’s a chimpanzee. While individual elephants are trained to always paint the same thing, art produced ...

A 48-year-old man from Bedfordshire, England, has become the first patient ever to undergo brain surgery with live artificial ...

F or decades, we have known that Mars is an odd planet. Its Northern Hemisphere is mostly characterized by lowlands, ...